Now he surveyed him as if he were a viper.
"It will be a peculiarly offensive thing if the personality of a helpless and unoffending girl is brought into this inquiry," he cried.

"'Brought in' is too mild--I ought to say 'dragged in.' As it happens, astronomy is one of my hobbies.

Last evening, as the outcome of a chat on the subject, Doris Martin, daughter of the local postmaster, came here to view Sirius through an astronomical telescope.

There is the instrument," and he pointed through P.C.Robinson to a telescope on a tripod in a corner of the room.

The gesture was eloquent.