"So fine a gentleman that you are out of date.

The commonplace world doesn't grow fine gentlemen like you nowadays." Afterwards we had our first meal together.

They would not expect me back yet to lunch, and Anthony had arrived hungry as a hunter, while he protested that a man as much in love as he had no right to be hungry.
He had walked in unexpectedly, but Terence had not been taken by surprise.

Terence had things ready as though he had known the day and hour of his coming.

He served us as excellent a meal, according to my Anthony, as had ever been eaten.