The stream of people coming in to supper was greater even than at dinner-time.

He found a small table, and ordered some oysters.

The sight of this bevy of pleasure-seekers, all apparently with multitudes of friends, might have engendered a sense of loneliness in a man of different disposition.

To Mr.Sabin his isolation was a luxury.

He had an uninterrupted opportunity of pursuing his favourite study.
There entered a party towards midnight, to meet whom the head-waiter himself came hurrying from the further end of the room, and whose arrival created a little buzz of interest.