Oh, Phineas, it is such a pleasure to hear your voice again.

You have been at Loughlinter ?" "Yes, I have been there." "How very good of you; but I won't ask a question now.

You must put up with a stove here, as we have not open fires in the bed-rooms.

I hope you will be comfortable.

Don't be more than half an hour, as I shall be impatient." Though he was thus instigated to haste he stood a few minutes with his back to the warm stove that he might be enabled to think of it all.