"It's long since I have seen you." "You know our house," Barbara rejoined.
"Oh, well," he said with a twinkle, "when I last came, you talked to me for about two minutes and then left me to play billiards with your brother.

He was polite, but in Canada we play pool and my game's not very good.

I imagined he was bored." "Mortimer is like that," said Barbara.

"But why are you wearing the steamship badge and sailor's clothes ?" Lister laughed.

"They're engineer's clothes.