'Why, how did you come here ?' 'Right through the passage, and up the stairs, sir,' said Mark.
'How did you find me out, I mean ?' asked Martin.
'Why, sir,' said Mark, 'I've passed you once or twice in the street, if I'm not mistaken; and when I was a-looking in at the beef-and-ham shop just now, along with a hungry sweep, as was very much calculated to make a man jolly, sir--I see you a-buying that.' Martin reddened as he pointed to the table, and said, somewhat hastily: 'Well! What then ?' 'Why, then, sir,' said Mark, 'I made bold to foller; and as I told 'em downstairs that you expected me, I was let up.' 'Are you charged with any message, that you told them you were expected ?' inquired Martin.
'No, sir, I an't,' said Mark.

'That was what you may call a pious fraud, sir, that was.' Martin cast an angry look at him; but there was something in the fellow's merry face, and in his manner--which with all its cheerfulness was far from being obtrusive or familiar--that quite disarmed him.
He had lived a solitary life too, for many weeks, and the voice was pleasant in his ear.
'Tapley,' he said, 'I'll deal openly with you.

From all I can judge and from all I have heard of you through Pinch, you are not a likely kind of fellow to have been brought here by impertinent curiosity or any other offensive motive.

Sit down.

I'm glad to see you.' 'Thankee, sir,' said Mark.