But he did not move, except to shake his head.
"I expected you'd say that. It's what anybody would say. It simply means that you haven't taken it in yet. No, since we've started we'll go on—unless you'd rather not. I warn you there's a good deal to be said for not going on."
"Why not talk about it down at Haslemere?"
Once more there was the hint of irascibility.
"Do you want to hear or don't you?"
Slowly I sat down again, and he resumed his former attitude of cracking nuts with his palms for nutcrackers.
"There's not an atom of doubt about what I'm going to tell you," he began. "Not an atom. Unless I'm mistaken you saw for yourself this afternoon—though of course you didn't know what you were seeing. You simply thought I looked younger, didn't you?"
I waited in silence.
"And I fancy my manner got a bit on your nerves—does a bit now for that matter?"
This also I let pass without remark.