The guest of honour is none other than the Jang-i-Lat Sahib [the Commander-in-Chief].' 'Ho!' said Kim, with the correct guttural note of wonder.

He had learned what he wanted, and when the scullion turned he was gone.
'And all that trouble,' said he to himself, thinking as usual in Hindustani, 'for a horse's pedigree! Mahbub Ali should have come to me to learn a little lying.

Every time before that I have borne a message it concerned a woman.

Now it is men.

Better.