Say nothing.

Evince no surprise.

Some members are irritable.

Come!" Once more he took Andrew by the hand, and led him into the meeting-room; and still his eyes were fixed on the probationer's neck.
There seemed to be something about it that he liked.
It was not then, with the committee all around him, but long afterwards at Wheens, that Andrew was struck by the bareness of the chambers.
Without the president's presence they had no character.
The trifles were absent that are to a room what expression is to the face.
The tenant might have been a medical student who knew that it was not worth while to unpack his boxes.
The only ornament on the walls was an elaborate sketch by a member, showing the arrangement of the cellars beneath the premises of the Young Men's Christian Association.
There were a dozen men in the room, including the president of the Birmingham branch association and two members who had just returned from a visit to Edinburgh.

These latter had already submitted their report.
The president introduced Andrew to the committee, but not the committee to him.