It broke the fall considerably to find himself left still to the gentlemanly and unembarrassing attentions of his host.
Julius was led with honour to the kitchen, there to be regaled in a baronial fashion, which it was well for his morals and digestion was not a daily festival.

Jeffreys, having seen him comfortably curled up on a mat, returned to the library.

His host was pacing up and down the floor, evidently a little nervous, and Jeffreys instinctively felt that the ordeal was upon him.

Mr Rimbolt, however, began by a little fencing.
"I recollect taking a very pleasant tour through this district with two college friends when I was at Oxford.

See, here is the map I had with me at the time, and the route marked.