He kept on questioning his brother-in-law and his niece about their labors, and afterward related to them the sights he had seen in the shop windows.
Of course he could not eat much after the feast he had had at luncheon, and this disturbed Patsy a little.

She insisted he was tired, and carried her men away to the tenement rooms as soon as possible, where she installed them at the table to play cribbage until bed-time.
The next day Uncle John seemed to be busy enough, although of course Patsy could not know what he was doing.

He visited a real-estate office, for one thing, and then telephoned Isham, Marvin & Co.

and issued a string of orders in a voice not nearly so meek and mild as it was when he was in Patsy's presence.

Whatever he had undertaken required time, for all during the week he left the tenement directly the Major and his daughter had gone to the city, and bustled about until it was time to meet them for dinner at the restaurant.