Accept Lord Arranmore's kindness as the offshoot of some sentimental feeling which he might well have entertained towards a fellow-countryman by whose death-bed he had stood in that far-away, lonely country.

You may even yourself be mistaken in Lord Arranmore's character, and you can remember, too, that after all what means so much to you costs him nothing--is probably for his own advantage." Brooks rose and took up his hat.
"I am very much obliged to you, Mr.Ascough," he said.

"Yours, after all, is the common-sense view of the affair.

If you like I will walk up to the station.

I am going that way.