“I see you have been having a great stroke of luck,” he said.
“Have I?”
“Yes. I see in the papers, that your discovery, or invention, or whatever it was, has been taken up.”
“Oh! yes—that? It has.”
“I congratulate you.”
“Thank you.”
“I would not mind looking into that.”
“Yes, it is interesting.”
“I might take an interest in it.”
“Yes, I should think so.”