Each of the three rooms of what the agent of the building liked to call a suite opened directly into the hall.

In the first Harwood set up a desk for himself; in the second he placed the library, and the third and largest was to be Bassett's at such times as he cared to use it.

Throughout the summer Harwood hardly saw Bassett, and he began to regret his reluctant assent to a relationship which conferred so many benefits with so little work.

He dug hungrily at the law, and felt that he was making progress.
Fitch, who was braving the heat in town, had outlined a course of reading for him, and continued his manifestations of friendliness by several times asking him to dinner, with a motor ride later to cool them off before going to bed.
Bassett kept pretty close to Fraserville, running into the city occasionally for a few hours.

He complained now and then because he saw so little of his family, who continued at the lake.