"I loved John Gilman when we were in school together, but I have not been able to feel, since I located here, that he is exactly the same John; and what you have told me very probably explains the difference in him." When Katy announced dinner Linda arose.
Peter Morrison stepped beside her and offered his arm.

Linda rested her finger tips upon it and he led her to the head of the table and seated her.

Then Katy served a meal that, if it had been prepared for Eileen, she would have described as a banquet.

She gave them delicious, finely flavored food, stimulating, exquisitely compounded drinks that she had concocted from the rich fruits of California and mints and essences at her command.

When, at the close of the meal, she brought Morrison some of the cigars Eileen kept for John Gilman, she set a second tray before Linda, and this tray contained two packages.