It seems there is a very ill-conditioned person who works in the same room as Mr.Gray--a good workman, but most ill-conditioned.

When he is especially bad-tempered he vents his anger on his quiet room-fellow, who never seems to hear him but works away as though he were a thousand miles distant from the grumbling and scolding.
Well, it seems that the other day, despairing, perhaps, of rousing Mr.
Gray by any other methods, he made a reference to Mary as having got into fine society and looking down on her father.

It's a little place, after all, my dear, and you and your motor-car are known as well as the Town Hall.

Mr.Gray got up very quietly and threw the man downstairs; then went back to his work without a word.

Gordon saw it in quite the right way.