"Give me your hand--I have taken a liking to you.

You're not like the other young fellows of the present time.

I shall call you 'Arnold.' You mus'n't return the compliment and call me 'Patrick,' mind--I'm too old to be treated in that way.

Well, and how do you get on here?
What sort of a woman is my sister-in-law?
and what sort of a house is this ?" Arnold burst out laughing.
"Those are extraordinary questions for you to put to me," he said.

"You talk, Sir, as if you were a stranger here!" Sir Patrick touched a spring in the knob of his ivory cane.