Mr.Harley, himself, was apt to be hovering about the Senate corridors.

Or he would be holding pow-wow with men of importance, that is to say, money, at one of the hotels.

Dorothy, who was not interested in dark-lantern legislation, and required no restoring naps, would be alone.

Wherefore, it became the practice of Storri to appear of an afternoon at the Harley house, and ask for Mr.Harley.Not finding that business man, Storri, who did not insist that his errand was desperate, would idle an hour with Dorothy.
Storri thought himself one to fascinate a woman, and had a fine confidence in his powers to charm.

He had studied conquest as an art.
When he beleagured a girl's heart, his first approaches were modeled on the free and jovial.