"Only you would naturally add that it was I who thought of it." Shere Ali smiled and replied: "I won't fail to do that, Colonel Dewes." "No?
Then use it as much as you like, for it's true.

Out here one remembers the comfort of England and looks forward to it.

But back there, one forgets the discomfort of India.

By George! that's pretty good, too.
Shall we look at the horses ?" Shere Ali did not answer that question.

With a quiet persistence he kept Colonel Dewes to the conversation.