I am very grateful to you, and so will Gabriel be when she hears of your kind invitation.
It's a real heaping of coals of fire after that infernal placard of my father's." He shook my hand and set off down the road, but he came running after me presently, calling me to stop.
"I was just thinking," he said, "that you must consider us a great mystery up there at Cloomber.

I dare say you have come to look upon it as a private lunatic asylum, and I can't blame you.

If you are interested in the matter, I feel it is unfriendly upon my part not to satisfy your curiosity, but I have promised my father to be silent about it.

And indeed if I were to tell you all that I know you might not be very much the wiser after all.

I would have you understand this, however--that my father is as sane as you or I, and that he has very good reasons for living the life which he does.