Where are you staying ?" "At Mr.Swallow's, but I leave by the night train." "So soon! But come and dine.

I will send for your bag and see that you get to your train." The prospect of Swallow and his feeble, overdressed wife, and his comrade's urgency, decided Woodburn.

He said, "Yes, if Mr.Swallow will excuse me." Swallow said, "Oh, of course!" relieved to be rid of a dissatisfied client, and the two ex-soldiers went away together chatting of West Point life.
Half-way up the avenue Penhallow said, "Before we go in, a word or two--" "What is it, Jim ?" "That fellow said nothing of Mrs.Penhallow, you are sure ?" "Yes," returned Woodburn, "not a word.

I knew that you lived here, but neither of you nor of Mrs.Penhallow did he say a word in connection with this business.

I meant to look you up this afternoon.