The Trichinopoly cheroot is Thorndyke's one dissipation, and, I must say, he takes it very temperately.

Under ordinary circumstances he smokes a pipe; but after a specially heavy day's work, or on any occasion of festivity or rejoicing, he indulges in a Trichinopoly, and he smokes the very best that can be got." "So even the greatest men have their weaknesses," Juliet moralised; "but I wish I had known Dr.Thorndyke's sooner, for Mr.Hornby had a large box of Trichinopoly cheroots given to him, and I believe they were exceptionally fine ones.

However, he tried one and didn't like it, so he transferred the whole consignment to Walter, who smokes all sorts and conditions of cigars." So we talked on from one commonplace to another, and each more conventional than the last.

In my nervousness, I overdid my part, and having broken the ice, proceeded to smash it to impalpable fragments.
Endeavouring merely to be unemotional and to avoid undue intimacy of manner, I swung to the opposite extreme and became almost stiff; and perhaps the more so since I was writhing with the agony of repression.
Meanwhile a corresponding change took place in my companion.

At first her manner seemed doubtful and bewildered; then she, too, grew more distant and polite and less disposed for conversation.