Glad you're improving so rapidly.

Let me know if I can do anything to help you." With these quiet words, he bowed and left the room, and when he had gone, Joe said, in a deprecating tone: "Poor Bob must be very unhappy about having lost my father's money in that speculation, for he advocated the plan very strongly, believing it was a good investment.

I'm afraid your mistake about paying him all that money upset him.

Don't mind if he was a little brusque, sir.

Bob West is a simple, kindly man, whom my father fully trusted.