"This down-town property is coming up.

Business is getting in on all these side streets.

I thought I paid a pretty good price for it, too." He went on to talk of real estate, and March began to feel a certain resentment at his continued avoidance of the only topic in which they could really have a common interest.

"You live down this way somewhere, don't you ?" the old man concluded.
"Yes.

I wished to be near my work." March was vexed with himself for having recurred to it; but afterward he was not sure but Dryfoos shared his own diffidence in the matter, and was waiting for him to bring it openly into the talk.