"Surprised to see me ?" "Well, I'll say so! Daren, you've changed," she replied, and the latter part of her speech flashed swiftly.
"Rather," he said, laconically.

"What would you expect?
So have you changed." There came a moment's pause.

Helen was not embarrassed or agitated, but something about Lane or the situation apparently made her slow or stiff.
"Daren, you--of course you remember Hardy Mackay and Dick Swann," she said.
Lane turned to greet one-time schoolmates and rivals of his.

Mackay was tall, homely, with a face that lacked force, light blue eyes and thick sandy hair, brushed high.

Swann was slight, elegant, faultlessly groomed and he had a dark, sallow face, heavy lips, heavy eyelids, eyes rather prominent and of a wine-dark hue.