"And so I wrote and asked you to come.

Kind of me, wasn't it ?" "Most infernally kind," said Howard, with a sigh of a ton weight.

"Had you any idea that your father was building this little place?
By the way, I can't imagine Sir Stephen building anything that could be described as 'little'.
"You are right," assented Stafford, with a nod.

"I heard coming down that it was a perfect palace of a place, a kind of palace of art and--and that sort of thing.

You know the governor's style ?" His brows were slightly knit for just a second, then he threw, as it were, the frown off, with a smile.