During the term of his punishment he behaved in a bearish and most unheroic manner.

At last, however, Doria forgave him, and, smiling on him once more, permitted him to read Tolstoi aloud to her.

Whereupon he mended his manners.
The day following this reconciliation was a Sunday.

We had invited Liosha (as we constantly did) to lunch and dine.

She usually arrived by an early train in the forenoon and returned by the late train at night.
But on Saturday evening, she asked Barbara, over the telephone, for permission to bring a friend, a gentleman staying in the boarding house, the happy possessor of a car, who would motor her down.