My friends find me a perfect nuisance, for I am always wanting to give parties.

You have the still, cold face of a surgeon--and the hands, too," she added, glancing at them.
"You are very observant," he remarked laconically.
"I am also curious," she laughed, "as you are about to discover.

Tell me why you are so interested in Ronnie Granet?
You hadn't met him before, had you ?" Almost for the first time he turned and looked directly at his neighbour.

She was a woman whose fair hair was turning grey, well-dressed, sprightly, agreeable.

She had a humorous mouth and an understanding face.
"Captain Granet was a stranger to me," he assented.