"Have you secured the consent of your partners in the option to waive the apartment-house requirements ?" "Oh, no!" she ejaculated, shocked that any one should think that possible.

"We have decided to build the apartment-house and to live there." "To live there!" he repeated, remembering the elaborate Guff residence.
"Yes, indeed!" she enthusiastically exclaimed.

"You know the property slopes down to the river beautifully, and exquisite, private, terraced gardens could be built there.

We could take the entire lower floor of the apartment building for ourselves, with a private driveway arched right through it; and we could take the first three floors of the rear part for our own use, with wonderful Venetian balconies overlooking the terraces and the river.

The remaining apartments would have entrances on the two front corners, leaving us all the effect of a Venetian palace.