She turned and came back to the ventilator, meaning to go around to her chair, but he stopped her.
'Don't go yet, please!' he said, keeping beside her.

'Call me a disgusting brute if you like.

I sha'n't mind it, and I daresay it's true in a kind of way.

Business isn't very refining, you know, and it was the only education I got after I was sixteen.

I'm sorry I called that book rubbish, for I'm sure it's not.