She was busy cutting bread and butter.
"Scarcely at all.

What chance was there?
And then Richard Graveling came." "They were friends?
They took to one another ?" the young man asked eagerly.
She hesitated.
"I am not sure about that.

Graveling was in one of his tempers.

He was rude, and he said things to me which I felt obliged to contradict." "They did not quarrel ?" She laughed softly.
"Imagine Maraton quarrelling! I think that he is above such pettiness, Aaron." "Graveling is a good fellow and a hard worker," Aaron declared.

"The one thing which he lacks is enthusiasm.