The man was cordial enough; he was even prepared to find Peter likable; but even more on that account to measure his relation to Miss Goodward in terms of its being a "good thing." "It's not, you know," his host couldn't forebear to remind him, "exactly the sort of a marriage we expected of Eunice; but if the girl is satisfied----" "If I hadn't satisfied myself on that point----" Peter reminded him in his turn.
"Quite so, quite so ...

girls have notions sometimes; one never quite knows ...

You'll keep on with your--just _what_ is it you do such tremendous things with; one hears of course that you _do_ do them----" "Real estate, brokerage," Peter enlightened him.

"I shall certainly keep on with it.

Isn't one supposed to have all the more need of it when there's an establishment to keep up ?" The symbol waved a deprecating hand.