Don't say a word about my arrival to your mistress at present.

I have some writing to do.

Bring me a glass of sherry at once, or mix a cocktail if you can do so without being missed, and take Jimmy away and give him some whisky and soda." "But what about your own dinner, sir ?" "I'll have a tray in the gun room," his master decided, "say in twenty minutes' time.

And, Mills, who did you say were dining ?" "Two of the young officers from the Depot, sir--Mr.Harrison and Mr.
Sinclair--and Mr.Hamar Lessingham." "Lessingham, eh ?" Sir Henry repeated, as he seated himself before his writing-table.

"Mills," he added, in a confidential whisper, "what port did you serve ?" The butler's expression was one of conscious rectitude.
"Not the vintage, sir," he announced with emphasis.