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In the evening
`` Does n't , '' Sir Richmond snapped . Came a long pause . `` And yet -- It is extraordinarily difficult to think of parting from Martin . '' Section 3 In the evening after dinner Dr. Martineau sought , rather unsuccessfully , to go on with the analysis of Sir Richmond . But Sir Richmond was evidently a creature of moods . Either he regretted the extent of his confidences or the slight irrational irritation that he felt at waiting for his car affected his attitude towards his companion , or Dr. Martineau 's tentatives were ill-chosen . At any rate he would not rise to any conversational bait that the doctor could devise .