He might be a very respectable man, but somehow, Andy did not know why, there was something in his manner which inspired a little repulsion.

Besides, he remembered that he had considerable money with him, and that consideration alone rendered it imprudent for him to put himself in the power of a companion.

So he said, a little awkwardly: "I think we'd better take separate rooms." "Very well," said Fairfax, in a tone of indifference, though he really felt very much disappointed.

"I thought it might have been a little more sociable to be together." Andy did not take the hint, except so far as to say: "We can take rooms alongside of each other." "I can give you adjoining rooms, if you desire," said the clerk.
Fairfax here entered his name in the hotel register as "Nathaniel Marvin, Portland, Maine," while Andy put down his real address.

His companion's was, of course, fictitious.