How is he ?" "He seemed well, but he struck me as being at rather a loose end.

What is wrong with him?
You know him well and can tell me.

He seems to have nothing to do; to have fallen out of his niche, you know.

And he looks so extraordinarily clever." "He _is_ extraordinarily clever.

But if I undertook to tell you what was wrong with Lewie Haystoun, I should never get to the House to-night.
The vitality of a great family has run to a close in him.