Englishman

"The question seems to be " began the Englishman. He [looked:walked] up and bowed to a girl in a yachting-cap who had just come in from deck and was taking the seat beside him. "The [question:answer] seems to be " The girl was having some difficulty in removing her [coat:hat] , and he turned to assist her. "In my opinion," broke in a well-known alienist on his way to a convention in [Vienna:Vietnam] , "the question is simply whether or not [civilization:culture] , in placing an exorbitant value upon human life, is defeating its own aims." He leaned forward authoritatively and spoke with a half-foreign precision of accent.