Doubtless you were justified in taking advantage of the open door.

But now that you are here may I ask you what you purpose next to do ?" "I admit, sir, that the question is natural," replied Dick, suiting his tone and manner to those of the old man.

"I have scarcely had time yet to form a purpose, but, since the danger of contamination of which we spoke still exists, it occurs to me that perhaps I might stay here a while.

Is there some nook or a cover in which I might rest?
I hope I do not trespass too much upon your hospitality." Colonel Woodville pondered.

His great white eyebrows were drawn together and, for a moment or two, he gazed down the beak of his nose.
"I confess," he said, "that the appeal to hospitality moves me.