In return Frank asked about the shoe business, though he really did not care.

All the while, inoffensively, he watched Mrs.Semple.Her manner, he thought, was soothing, attractive, delightful.

She served tea and cake for them.
They went inside after a time to avoid the mosquitoes.

She played the piano.

At ten o'clock he left.
Thereafter, for a year or so, Cowperwood bought his shoes of Mr.Semple.
Occasionally also he stopped in the Chestnut Street store to exchange the time of the day.