"More to the left, more still--that will do.

During your absence upstairs," he continued, addressing himself to Magdalen, "my mind has not been unemployed.

I have been considering your position with a view exclusively to your own benefit.

If you decide on being guided to-morrow by the light of my experience, that light is unreservedly at your service.

You may naturally say: 'I know but little of you, captain, and that little is unfavorable.' Granted, on one condition--that you permit me to make myself and my character quite familiar to you when tea is over.