"What else can I offer you ?" "Oh, this will do very well," said Morris.

"I am so thirsty." "You have dined ?" asked his host quietly.
"No; I don't think I did.

I wasn't hungry." The Cromwellian clock chimed a remnant half hour.
"Half-past," said Morris, filling his glass again.

"You expect him then, don't you ?" "Mills is not always very punctual," said Mr.Taynton.
For the next quarter of an hour the two sat with hardly the interchange of a word.

From outside came the swift steady hiss of the rain on to the shrubs in the garden, and again the clock chimed.