Then Karetsky reached for his hat.
"Your arrival, Lord Dorminster," he observed, "leaves me free to make a few calls myself.

We shall, I trust, meet again." Nigel murmured a few courteous words and watched the retreating figure with some curiosity.
"Your father is very typical," he declared.

"He reminds me of your country itself.

He is massive, has suggestions of undeveloped strength." "Add that he is a little ponderous," Naida said lightly, "slow to make up his mind, but as obstinate as the Urals themselves, and you have described him.

Now tell me what you think of a young woman who rings you up without the slightest encouragement and invites you to come to the Opera purposely to visit her box." "I deny the absence of encouragement, and I am very grateful for the opportunity of coming," Nigel answered.