"How very disgusting!" he said. "Yes, Edinburgh is my home—my father's, at least."
"And had you never met Doris before I introduced you to her?"
The Sahib did not answer for a moment.
"I had not been introduced. I had seen her. Hers is not a face that one forgets."
"And yet it only gives a hint of all that lies behind it. You might travel from Dan to Beersheba without finding such a gloriously unselfish woman, and such a perfect child of Nature."
"She is delightfully natural and unaffected. I think that is her great charm. What sort of man is Colquhoun? Of course every one knows him by name."
"Yes; he is very near the top of the tree in his profession. He is a scientist, too, but in that capacity he is a trifle—pathetic. Shall you call when you go back?"
"I have obtained permission to do so."
"You would do me a personal favour if you would enter into his scientific fads a little. Dear lovable old man! You will have to laugh in your sleeve pretty audibly before he suspects that you are doing it."
"I don't think I shall feel at all inclined to. Is Miss Colquhoun a scientist too?"