They shunned each other's eyes.
Waymark was even less at his ease than Ida, knowing that Mr.Woodstock observed him closely at all times.

With her grandfather Ida tried to speak freely of their friend, but she too was troubled by the consciousness that the old man did not seem as friendly to Waymark as formerly.
"This will of course only be for a time ?" she said, when told of Waymark's new employment.
"I don't know," Abraham replied indifferently.

"I should think it will suit him as well as anything else." "But he is clever; he writes books.

Don't you think he will make himself known some day ?" "That kind of thing isn't much to be depended on, it seems to me.

It's a doubtful business to look forward to for a living." Ida kept silence on the subject after that.