His talk was full of human bits, some tragic, more amusing.

And Roger's liking for the man increased with every story told.
"I asked you here," he bluntly began, when they had gone to the study to smoke, "to talk to you about Deborah." Baird gave him a friendly look.
"All right.

Let's talk about her." "It strikes me you were right last year," said Roger, speaking slowly.
"She's already showing the strain of her work.

She don't look to me as strong as she was." "She looks to me stronger," Allan replied.

"You know, people fool doctors now and then--and she seems to have taken a fresh start.