"Well, did you see much of Mallard?" he asked, throwing himself into a seat impatiently, and beginning to rap his knee with the paper-knife.
"Not very much."
"Has he come back with you?"
"Oh no; he is still in Rome. He said that he would most likely return when the others did."
"How do he and Cecily get on together?"
"They seemed to be quite friendly."
"Indeed? Does he go about with them?"
"I don't know."
"But did he when you were there?"
"I think he was with them at the Vatican once."