I had a brother in the army at Liege, he added, apparently apropos of nothing.

It kinder dwells." Then, apparently apropos of nothing, he added, irrelevantly: "Wonder what Denver's doing right now?"

"There's a heap of difference in noses," he murmured, apparently apropos of nothing.

"I have thought of just the thing for you," she said, apparently apropos of nothing.

"It's a month and a day since I first met you Miss Mackenzie," he said, apparently apropos of nothing.

"Has it ever occurred to you," asked Chaffery, apparently apropos of nothing, "that intellectual conviction is no motive at all?