"Oh, I say, Connie, I'd much rather be plain Brock to you." "Please don't forget that I am doing this for my sister,--not for myself, by any manner of means," she said stiffly.

He flushed painfully, conscious of the rebuke.
"Please overlook my faults for the time being," he said.

"I'll do better.

You see, I've been rather overcome by the sense of my own importance.

I'm not used to being the head of an establishment.