His apparently careless summer garb required the adjustment of an expert here and there.

He was an hour in the doing of it.

When he emerged he was not, taken in a comprehensive way, bad-looking.

He was clear-faced, strong-featured and of stalwart build.
The ordinary man he would not have feared in any meeting; of the woman he was about to meet he had some apprehension.

He knew her quality, but--she had worked for him a tie! He went up the broad path to the doorway, between flowers and trees and shrubbery.