I puzzled him, I suppose.

He perceived the likeness between me and my dear cousins.

We are like one another, are we not, we Hume-Frazers ?" He laughed mirthlessly, and stared at David and Robert alternately.

Winter broke in with a hasty question: "If he is speaking the truth about the snake poison, shouldn't we send for a doctor ?" No one had thought of this previously.

Brett reproached himself for his forgetfulness.