It was a pity he had cultivated that trick.

It spoilt an otherwise classically regular set of features.
"James!" he shouted.
The footman entered.
"Take this gentleman to your mistress.

I have done with him." "For the present, James," said Brett.
The astonished servant led him along a corridor and knocked at a door hidden by a silk curtain.

Mrs.Capella rose to receive her visitor.

She was very pale now, but quite calm and dignified in manner.
"Davie did not come with you ?" she said when Brett was seated near to her in an alcove formed by an oriel window.
"No.