I give you my word, Swinnerton, that if you can't tell me straight out what you are driving at, off of this land you go.
Arnold Bennett has described Swinnerton personally in a way no one else is likely to surpass.
Mr. Swinnerton has written four or five other novels before this one, but none of them compares with it in quality.
Swinnerton's scheme looked more promising than the Old Man's.
Was the combination of desert and Swinnerton and capital going to prove too much for them?