then with a shrug

  "I am all attention Miss Lucy, only I hope you don't object to my cigar."   "Not at all, it will make you more patient perhaps."   "Shouldn't wonder, as I'm afraid from your preamble it is nothing I care to hear."   "Everard!" then with a shrug. "Of course you don't."   Everard laughed. "You stupid fellow, won't you be quiet and hear what I have to say."   "Oh certainly."   "I wish to remind you, that you need not go goodness knows how many hundred miles to find people to convert, as there are plenty nearer home."   "No doubt, and also, others near home anxious to convert them."   "And do you think, that no one but yourself would go to that outlandish place."   "Very few, comparatively; of course there are some."   "Mighty few I expect."   "Then you see an additional reason, why I should."