Are you, by any chance, a bibliophile?
I have a case of manuscripts here which might interest you." Hamel shook his head.
"Only in the abstract, I fear," he answered.

"I have scarcely opened a serious book since I was at Oxford." "What was your year ?" Mr.Fentolin asked.
"Fourteen years ago I left Magdalen," Hamel replied.

"I had made up my mind to be an engineer, and I went over to the Boston Institute of Technology." Mr.Fentolin nodded appreciatively.
"A magnificent profession," he murmured.

"A healthy one, too, I should judge from your appearance.

You are a strong man, Mr.Hamel." "I have had reason to be," Hamel rejoined.