"Doesn't look a bad shape, either." He tried it on.

There was a little peal of laughter from the men.
Philippa had ceased her knitting and was watching from the couch.

Sir Henry looked at himself in the looking-glass.
"Well, that's funny," he observed.

"I shouldn't have thought it would have been so much too small for me.

Here, just try how you'd look in it, Mr.Lessingham," he added, handing it across to him.
Lessingham accepted the situation quite coolly, and placed the hat carefully on his head.
"It doesn't feel particularly comfortable," he remarked.
"That may be," Sir Henry suggested, "because you have it on wrong side foremost.