Then as conversation did not start spontaneously, he once more looked around, nodded at the landscape approvingly, and once more said "Tiptop!" "That's what I want to have," he continued, "when I can afford to retire and settle down.

None of your gimcrack modern villas in a desirable residential neighbourhood, but an English gentleman's country house." "It's your ambition to be an English gentleman, Mr.Fendihook ?" queried Doria.
He laughed good-humouredly.

"Now you're pulling my leg." I saw that he was not lacking in shrewdness.
Susan, never far from Jaffery during her off-time, came running up.
"Hallo, is that your young 'un ?" Mr.Fendihook asked.

"Come and say how d'ye do, Gwendoline." Susan advanced shyly.

He shook hands with her, chucked her under the chin and paid her the ill compliment of saying that she was the image of her father.