"Will you show your readiness to make sacrifices to-morrow morning, first by asking me to breakfast, to meet Mr. Bell, and secondly, by being so kind as to order it at half-past nine, instead of at ten o'clock? I have some letters and papers that I want to show to Miss Hale and Mr. Bell."
"I hope Mr. Bell will make our house his own during his stay in London," said Captain Lennox. "I am only so sorry we cannot offer him a bedroom."
"Thank you. I am much obliged to you. You would only think me a churl if you had, for I should decline it, I believe, in spite of all the temptations of such agreeable company," said Mr. Bell, bowing all round, and secretly congratulating himself on the neat turn he had given to his sentence, which, if put into plain language, would have been more to this effect: "I couldn't stand the restraints of such a proper-behaved and civil-spoken people as these are: it would be like meat without salt. I'm thankful they haven't a bed. And how well I rounded my sentence! I'm absolutely catching the trick of good manners."

'Will you ask me to breakfast tomorrow to meet Mr. Bell, and be so kind as to order it at half-past nine? I have some papers that I want to show to Miss Hale and Mr. Bell.'
'I hope Mr. Bell will make our house his own during his stay in London,' said Captain Lennox. 'I am only sorry we cannot offer him a bedroom.'
'Thank you. I am much obliged.' Mr. Bell, bowing, was secretly thinking: 'I couldn't stand the restraints of such proper-behaved people as these. I'm thankful they haven't a bed!'
