"It is rather good of him to be so anxious to pay his bill every week." "Yes, it is a very laudable desire," said Randolph.

"I only hope his ability may equal it." His mother looked at him with quick surprise.

"Why, you surely don't think--" she said.
"I think nothing.

The man is all right, so far as I know.

He seems a gentleman, and if he is well off he is a very desirable acquisition to Banbridge." "Who was that with him in the coach ?" asked Mrs.Anderson.
"One of his daughters, I should judge.