It was difficult to say whether questioner or answerer took least pleasure in the interrogation, which might have referred to the concerns of a third party.

Both, however, spoke disrespectfully of their common family, with almost an approach to sympathetic interest.
"You might as well be going now," said the Doctor, finally rising.

"You can stop at the fonda, about two miles further on, and get your supper and bed, if you like." The young man slipped from the table, and lounged to the door.

The Doctor put his hands in his pockets and followed him.

The young man, as if in unconscious imitation, had put HIS hands in his pockets also, and looked at him.
"I'll hear from you, then, when you are in San Jose ?" said Dr.West, looking past him into the grain, with a slight approach to constraint in his indifference.
"Yes--if that's agreed upon," returned the young man, pausing on the threshold.