Mr.Ravis, senior, belonged to the Bohemian Club, but was seldom seen there.

Stanley was absorbed in his law business, and Turner went out but little.

They much preferred each other's society to that of three fourths of their acquaintances, most of their friends being "friends of the family," who came to dinner three or four times a year.
It was a custom of theirs to spend the evenings in the big dining-room at the back of the house, after the table had been cleared away, Mr.
Ravis and Stanley reading the papers, the one smoking his cigar, the other his pipe; Mrs.Ravis, with the magazines and Turner with the _Chautauquan_.

Howard and Virginia appropriated the table to themselves where they played with their soldiers and backgammon board.
The family kept two servants, June the "China boy," who had been with them since the beginning of things, and Delphine the cook, a more recent acquisition.

June was, in a way, butler and second boy combined; he did all the downstairs work and the heavy sweeping, but it was another time-worn custom for Mrs.Ravis and Turner to spend part of every morning in putting the bedrooms to rights, dusting and making up the beds.