It was three o'clock in the afternoon, and he would find her alone, he thought, for chances of calls are not so great in the smaller towns as in the cities; there is an average to be maintained, and Mrs.Jones or Mrs.Smith does not receive on days particularized.

He was compelled to wait in the parlor but a moment.

She came in, and he saw her for the first time in two years.
What a gift women have in producing physical effects upon the creature male, no matter what the woman's status.

Mrs.Rolfston came in with a look of half inquiry on her face and with a presentation of herself which was perfect in its way.

She wore some soft and fluffy dress--a man cannot describe a garb in detail--with that lace-surrounded triangular bareness upon the bosom just below the chin which is as irreproachable as it is telling.