The cloud had passed from his face.

To all appearance that momentary suspicion had been strangled.
"So you found me a bore!" he observed.

"Then I must admit that your manners were good, for when you found that I spoke English and that you could not escape conversation, you allowed me to talk on about my business, and you showed few signs of weariness.

You should be a diplomatist, Mr.Norgate." "Mr.Norgate is, or rather he was," Mrs.Paston Benedek remarked.

"He has just left the Embassy at Berlin." Selingman leaned back in his chair and thrust both hands into his trousers pockets.