With agents we had a little better fortune.

Euphemia sometimes went with me on my expeditions to real estate offices, and she remarked that these offices were always in the basement, or else you had to go up to them in an elevator.

There was nothing between these extremes.

And it was a good deal the same way, she said, with their houses.

They were all very low indeed in price and quality, or else too high.
One trouble was that we wanted a house in a country place, not very far from the city, and not very far from the railroad station or steamboat landing.