The only advantage I had was a clear coast, and now that is gone.

Of course Keswick was frightened when he found I was staying in the same house with Roberta March, and hurried back to attend to his own interests.

The first thing he will do now will be to propose to her himself; and, as they have been engaged once, it is as like as not she will take him again.

If I could use this foot, I would go into the house, this minute, and have the first word with her." At this he rose to his feet and made a step with his sprained ankle, but the sudden pain occasioned by this action caused him to sit down again with a groan.

Lawrence Croft was not a man to do himself a physical injury which might be permanent, if such doing could possibly be avoided, and he gave up the idea of trying to go into the house.
"I tell you what it is, Letty," said Uncle Isham, when he returned to the kitchen after having carried Lawrence's supper to him, "dat ar Mister Croft in de offis is a gittin wuss an' wuss in he min', ebery day.