Very good of you, I am sure, to come down here so soon after your arrival.

You would hardly have seen him at all since you landed, then ?" "Carr?
Yes," I replied, thinking Charles's talk was becoming very vague; though when I rallied him about it next day he assured me it had been very much to the point indeed.

"We dined and went to the play together, and had rather a nasty accident into the bargain on our way home." "What kind of accident ?" I told him the particulars, which seemed to interest him very much.
"And you had all those jewels of poor Sir John's with you, no doubt," continued Charles.

"You said you had them on you day and night.

I wonder you were not relieved of them." "That is just what Carr said," I went on; "for he lost something of his, poor fellow.