You have had a trying day, no doubt.

My visit at its close cannot be helpful.

But--" "I am feeling rather tired mentally," interrupted Grant, "so you will oblige me by not raising too many points at once.

Why should you imagine that conversation with you in particular should add to my supposed distress ?" "Doesn't it ?" "No." "Why, then, may I ask, do you so obviously resent my questions?
Who has so much right to put them as I ?" Grant found that he must bestir himself.

Thus far, the honors lay with this rather sinister-looking yet quiet-mannered visitor.
"I am sorry if anything I have said lends color to that belief," he answered.