Can you dine with me this evening ?' "I replied that I should be greatly obliged; but, in the first place, as a stranger, would count it a favour to be told of some decent lodging for such time as I should be detained in Bombay.
"Mr.Sanderson pondered again, tapped the floor with his foot, pulled his short crop of sandy whiskers, and said-- "'Our business may detain us, for aught I know, long into the night, Mr.Trenoweth.

Ye would be doing me a favour if ye stayed with me for a day or two.

I am a bachelor, and live as one.

So much the better, eh?
If you will get your boxes sent up to Craigie Cottage, Malabar Hill--any one will tell ye where Elihu Sanderson lives--I will try to make you comfortable.

You are wondering at the name 'Craigie Cottage'-- another crotchet of my father's.