"It's an honour which I scarcely expected." Julian found chairs for every one, and Mr.Stenson, recognising intuitively a certain state of tension, continued his good-humoured remarks.
"Miss Abbeway and I," he said, "have been having a most interesting conversation, or rather argument.

I find that she is entirely of your way of thinking, Furley.

You both belong to the order of what I call puffball politicians." Catherine laughed heartily at the simile.
"Mr.Stenson is a glaring example," she pointed out, "of those who do not know their own friends.

Mr.Furley and I both believe that some time or other our views will appeal to the whole of the intellectual and unselfish world." "It's a terrible job to get people to think," Furley observed.

"They are nearly always busy doing something else." "And these aristocrats!" Catherine continued, smiling at Julian.