Wait for me--I'll go down to supper with you." By this time Tracy had achieved a very friendly feeling for Barrow and would have called him a friend, maybe, if not taken too suddenly on a straight-out requirement to realize on his theories.

He was glad of his society, anyway, and was feeling lighter hearted than before.

Also he was pretty curious to know what vocation it might be which had furnished Barrow such a large acquaintanceship with books and allowed him so much time to read..