Hardiman had this great advantage in any little matter of debate; he never wished to move.

Place him in a chair, and he remained, singularly immobile.
"Since you were so quick to guess at once the reason of my question," continued Hillyard, "I can draw an inference.

Mario Escobar has been at Rackham Park a good deal ?" Sir Charles Hardiman's smile broadened.
"Even now you don't express your inference," he retorted.

"You mean that Mario Escobar has been at Rackham Park too much." He paused whilst he drew out his cigarette-case and selected a cigarette from it.

"And I agree," he added.