'Yes, I think so.

'He isn't a gentleman. Do you smoke?

'Yes.

'A pipe, I mean.

'Yes.

'Those are my pipes. Rernind me to show them to you after dinner.

At this moment the butler appeared with a message that Dr Fagan wished to see Mr Pennyfeather.

Dr Fagan's part of the Castle was more palatial. He stood at the end of a long room with his back to a rococo marble chimneypiece; he wore a velvet dinner‑jacket.

'Settling in? he asked.

'Yes, said Paul.