"By jove! Lost my glass; wonder I can see anything." Outside, on the veranda, the two men could see the cluster of women of which Kitty was the most animated flower.

Voices carried easily.
"Ah--what do you think of these--ah--Americans ?" asked Lord Monckton, as one compatriot to another, leaning toward the desk.
"I think them very kindly, very generous people; at least, those I have met.

Have you not found them so ?" "Quite so.

I am enjoying myself immensely." Lord Monckton swung about in the chair, his back to the veranda.
Thomas loosened his negligee linen-collar.
"Ah, really!" drifted into the room.

Lord Monckton sleepily eying Thomas, only heard the voice; he did not see, as Thomas did, the action and gesture which accompanied the phrase.