But he expounded them now to sympathetic ears.
"I think that his Excellency disapproved of my plan," said the Khan.
"Did he ?" cried Brigadier Appleton.

"On some points I am inclined to think that Luffe's views were not always sound.

Certainly let the boy go to Eton and Oxford.

A fine idea, your Highness.

The training will widen his mind, enlarge his ideas, and all that sort of thing.