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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Tavernake sat a few hours later at his evening meal in the tiny sitting-room of an apartment house in Chelsea.

He wore a black tie, and although he had not yet aspired to a dinner coat, the details of his person and toilet showed signs of a new attention.

Opposite to him was Beatrice.
"Tell me," she asked, as soon as the small maid-servant who brought in their first dish had disappeared, "what have you been doing all day?
Have you been letting houses or surveying land or book-keeping, or have you been out to Marston Rise ?" It was her customary question, this.

She really took an interest in his work.
"I have been attending a rich American client," he announced, "a compatriot of your own.