His friends buy him an outfit, and certain enterprising haberdashers make a study of such things.

I came as I am." While he was speaking she had been watching him--studying him more closely than she had hitherto been able to do.
"I have heard of a Sir John Meredith," she said suddenly.
"My father." He paused, drawing in his legs, and apparently studying the neat brown boots of which there had been question.
"Should you meet him again," he went on, "it would not be advisable to mention my name.

He might not care to hear it.

We have had a slight difference of opinion.

With me it is different.