But for the last four months there had been no opportunity.
"You going to stay here some time ?" asked the Editor, after a longish silence.
Renouard, perfunctorily, did see no reason why he should make a long stay.
"For health, for your mental health, my boy," rejoined the newspaper man.
"To get used to human faces so that they don't hit you in the eye so hard when you walk about the streets.

To get friendly with your kind.

I suppose that assistant of yours can be trusted to look after things ?" "There's the half-caste too.

The Portuguese.

He knows what's to be done." "Aha!" The Editor looked sharply at his friend.