You can turn the rocks around and see the other side." Claudius laughed a little, but Barker did not smile.

He was apparently occupied in inventing a patent transformation landscape on wheels.

In reality, he was thinking out a _menu_ for dinner whereby he might feed his friend without starving himself.

For Mr.Barker was particular about his meals, and accustomed to fare sumptuously every day, whereas he had observed that the Doctor was fond of sausages and decayed cabbage.

But he knew such depraved tastes could not long withstand the blandishments and caressing hypersensualism of Delmonico, if he ever got the Doctor so far.
Having successfully accomplished the business of dining, Mr.Barker promised to return in an hour, and sallied out to find the British aristocracy, whom he knew.