Though he had never attracted her, she had been obliged to admit that he possessed a power superior to superficial attractions.
"I dropped in to ask what I might do for you now ?" he remarked with the dignity of one who possesses an income of half a million dollars a year.
"It's a pity you have to leave this house.

I remember when Archibald bought it--somewhere back in the 'seventies--but I suppose there's no help for it, is there ?" "No, there's no help." She sat down on a packing-case, and he stood gazing benevolently down on her with his big, soft hands clasped on the head of his walking-stick and his overcoat on his arm.

"I've rented three rooms in one of the apartments of the old Carolina over on the West Side near Columbus Avenue.

The rest of the apartment is rented to art students, I believe, and we must all use the same kitchen and the same bath-tub," she added with a laugh.

"Of course it isn't luxury, but we shan't mind very much as soon as we get used to it.