After breakfast and supper Trina piled the plates and greasy dishes upon it to have them out of the way.
One afternoon the Other Dentist, McTeague's old-time rival, the wearer of marvellous waistcoats, was surprised out of all countenance to receive a visit from McTeague.

The Other Dentist was in his operating room at the time, at work upon a plaster-of-paris mould.

To his call of "'Come right in.

Don't you see the sign, 'Enter without knocking' ?" McTeague came in.

He noted at once how airy and cheerful was the room.