Watts became the more free-handed with his money because of Peter's prudence.

Watts talked more because of Peter's silence, and Peter listened more because of Watts's talk.

Watts, it is true, tried to drag Peter into society, yet in truth, Peter was really left more alone than if he had been rooming with a less social fellow.

Each had in truth become the complement of the other, and seemed as mutually necessary as the positive and negative wires in electricity.

Peter, who had been taking the law lectures in addition to the regular academic course, and had spent his last two summers reading law in an attorney's office, in his native town, taking the New York examination in the previous January, had striven to get Watts to do the same, with the ultimate intention of their hanging out a joint legal shingle in New York.
"I'll see the clients, and work up the cases, Watts, and you'll make the speeches and do the social end," said Peter, making a rather long speech in the ardor of his wishes.
Watts laughed.