It really looked as if there were something more than met the eye.

Eugene detected this idea in Haddington's mind, and it caused him keen amusement.

Kate also he had encountered, and their meeting had been marked by the ceremonious friendship demanded by the circumstances.

The flavor of diplomacy imparted to private life by these episodes had not, however, been strong enough to prevent Eugene being very bored.

He was growing from day to day less patient of Claudia's invisibility, and he expressed his feeling very plainly one day to Rickmansworth, whom he happened to encounter in the outer lobby, as the noble lord was finding his way to the unwonted haunt of the House of Lords, thereto attracted by a debate on the proper precautions it behooved the nation to take against pleuro-pneumonia.
"Surprising," he said, "what interesting subjects the old buffers get hold of now and then! Come and hear 'em, old man." "The Lord forbid!" said Eugene.