All this flyin' foolishness had to be a dead secret.
"But, busy as he was, he found time to notice the thick acquaintance that was developin' between Augustus and Olivia.

Them two was what the minister calls 'kindred sperrits.' Seems she was sufferin' from science same as he was and, more'n that, she was loaded to the gunwale with 'social reform.' To hear the pair of 'em go on about helpin' the poor and 'settlement work' and such was enough, accordin' to Nate, to make you leave the table.

But there! He couldn't complain.

Olivia was her uncle's only heir, and Nate could see a rainbow of promise ahead for the Scudder family.
"The niece was a nice, quiet girl.

The only thing Nate had against her, outside of the sociology craziness and her not seemin' to take a shine to him, was her confounded pets.