But they were not that.

Their undeniable humanity had to be acknowledged.

At the same time I wanted to have my own way.

So I proposed that I should be allowed the pleasure of offering them a cup of tea at my rooms.
A short reflective pause--and Fyne accepted eagerly in his own and his wife's name.

A moment after I heard the click of the gate-latch and then in an ecstasy of barking from his demonstrative dog his serious head went past my window on the other side of the hedge, its troubled gaze fixed forward, and the mind inside obviously employed in earnest speculation of an intricate nature.