I am not at all the sort of man to be conceited in that way.

Wishing to do the best they could for me, they picked you out.

It isn't that I don't think as well of you as they do, but--" "Really, Mr.Neville, this is the oddest conversation." "Quite true.

It is odd.

But the fact is you are here, and there is nobody else I can talk to.