Then the train came in, and Mr. Chalk, appearing suddenly from behind the luggage, where he had been standing since he had first caught sight of the small, anxious face of Selina Vickers on the platform, entered the carriage and waved cheery adieus to Binchester.

He opened a cupboard in the panelling of the wall, and there followed the chink of glasses and the cheery buzz of a syphon.

" With a cheery nod he withdrew, chuckling all the way downstairs; Mrs. Tyrer duly escorted him to the door, and then climbed slowly up again, every step creaking beneath her weight.

A strong, fine, keen person like that, to be bowled over by his sloppy emotions and dragged through the mud, like any beastly sensualist, or like one of my own cheery relations....

There was a great deal of cheery shouting and waving of hands as we went off.

The cheery singing ended abruptly with the collapse of the singer upon a particularly inviting slope of grass.