CHAPTER V.
AS A BROTHER.
Arnold immediately began to use the privilege accorded to him with a large and liberal interpretation.

If, he argued, a man is to be treated as a brother, there should be the immediate concession of the exchange of christian-names, and he should be allowed to call as often as he pleases.

Naturally he began by trying to read the secret of a life self-contained, so dull, and yet so happy, so strange to his experience.
"Is this, Iris ?" he asked, "all your life?
Is there nothing more ?" "No," she said; "I think you have seen all.

In the morning I have my correspondence; in the afternoon I do my sewing, I play a little, I read, or I walk, sometimes by myself, and sometimes with Lala Roy; in the evening I play again, or I read again, or I work at the mathematics, while my grandfather and Lala Roy have their chess.

We used to go to the theater sometimes, but of late my grandfather has not gone.