"The long clay pipe and the fat hands with the nails bitten."
"I see you have been observing him," said Rodney.
"The brown waistcoat with the white bone buttons, curving over the belly, and the belly shelving down into the short fat thighs, and the great feet wrapped in woollen slippers!"
"He suffers terribly, and hardly dares to stir out of that chair on account of the stone in the bladder, which he won't have removed."
"How characteristic the room seemed to me," said Harding. "The piano against the wall near the window."
"I know," said Rodney. "Lucy used to sit there playing. She plays beautifully."
"Yes, she plays very well."
"Go on," said Rodney, "what happened?"
"You know the mother, the thin woman with a pretty figure and the faded hair and the features like Lucy's."
"Yes."