Miss Layton, I resign.

Have no fear.

In the darkest corridor I will warn you that my name is 'Robert.'" Though the words were carelessly good-humoured, they were just a trifle emphatic.

The incident passed, but they recalled it subsequently under very different circumstances.
Brett went home about ten o'clock.

Next day at noon he was arranging for the immediate delivery of a type-writer machine, sold by Mr.Numagawa Jiro to a West End exchange, when a telegram reached him: "Come at once.