Pride forbade her making any deliberate attempt to break the ice, but she would not have been very sorry had it suddenly given way.

The man evidently was holding himself in hand, and she felt that she must emulate his reticence.

She clung to the safe topic, in which she really was interested, as he had done.
"Won't you go on ?" she asked.

"You were not successful in Vancouver, and you tried to raise the money in Montreal.

It's a little difficult, isn't it ?" "Oh, yes," said Weston, laughing, "as I'm situated, it certainly is.
Of course, a good deal depends on how you set about this kind of thing, and the correct way would have been to come in on a Pullman instead of a cattle-car, and then engage a suite of rooms at the biggest hotel.