Friendships seem so easily broken these days." "Because there are so few Norman Wentworths.

That man is blessed who has such a friend," said the young man, earnestly.
Mrs.Wentworth looked at him with a curious light in her eyes, and as she gazed her face grew more thoughtful.

Then, as Norman reappeared she changed the subject abruptly.
After dinner, while they were smoking, Norman made Keith tell him of his coal-lands and the business that had brought him to New York.

To Keith's surprise, he seemed to know something of it already.
"You should have come to me at first," he said.

"I might, at least, have been able to counteract somewhat the adverse influence that has been working against you." His brow clouded a little.
"Wickersham appears to be quite a personage here.