He began to know enough of Mr.Bolton's affairs to be uneasy.

Pennybacker had been there several times during the winter, and he suspected that he was involving Mr.Bolton in some doubtful scheme.
Pennybacker was in Washington, and Philip thought he might perhaps find out something about him, and his plans, that would be of service to Mr.
Bolton.
Philip had enjoyed his winter very well, for a man with his arm broken and his head smashed.

With two such nurses as Ruth and Alice, illness seemed to him rather a nice holiday, and every moment of his convalescence had been precious and all too fleeting.

With a young fellow of the habits of Philip, such injuries cannot be counted on to tarry long, even for the purpose of love-making, and Philip found himself getting strong with even disagreeable rapidity.
During his first weeks of pain and weakness, Ruth was unceasing in her ministrations; she quietly took charge of him, and with a gentle firmness resisted all attempts of Alice or any one else to share to any great extent the burden with her.

She was clear, decisive and peremptory in whatever she did; but often when Philip, opened his eyes in those first days of suffering and found her standing by his bedside, he saw a look of tenderness in her anxious face that quickened his already feverish pulse, a look that, remained in his heart long after he closed his eyes.
Sometimes he felt her hand on his forehead, and did not open his eyes for fear she world take it away.