"Have you any reason to think otherwise?
"No definite reason--except Lord Arranmore's unusual kindness to me," Brooks remarked.

"Lord Arranmore is one of the most self-centred men I ever knew--and the least impulsive.

Why, therefore, he should go out of his way to do me a kindness I cannot understand." "If this is really an enigma to you," Mr.Ascough answered, "I cannot help you to solve it.

Lord Arranmore has been the reverse of communicative to me.

I am afraid you must fall back upon his lordship's eccentricity." Mr.Ascough rose, but Brooks detained him.
"You have plenty of time for your train," he said.