They were told that at home, at both the law and the game of politics, he worked hard and successfully; but it was rather held against him by the youth of Fair Harbor that he played at there games, not so much for the sake of the game as for exercise.

He put aside many things, such as whiskey and soda at two in the morning, and bridge all afternoon, with the remark: "I find it does not tend toward efficiency." It was a remark that irritated and, to the minds of the men at the country clubs, seemed to place him.

They liked to play polo because they liked to play polo, not because it kept their muscles limber and their brains clear.
"Some Western people were telling me," said one of the matrons, "that he wants to be the next lieutenant-governor.

They say he is very ambitious and very selfish." "Any man is selfish," protested one who for years had attempted to marry Helen, "who wants to keep Helen to himself.

But that he should wish to be a lieutenant-governor, too, is rather an anticlimax.