Hastily he put a small table on the hearth-rug, spread it with a blue-and-white cloth, set plates and glasses.

Aaron did not move.
It was not his nature to concern himself with domestic matters--and Lilly did it best alone.
The two men had an almost uncanny understanding of one another--like brothers.

They came from the same district, from the same class.

Each might have been born into the other's circumstance.

Like brothers, there was a profound hostility between them.