Difference there was, but in details to which Mutimer was not very sensitive.

He kept up talk about the works for the most part, and described certain difficulties concerning rights of way which had of late arisen in the vicinity of the industrial settlement.
'I think you shall come and sit with me in the library,' he said as they rose from table.

And he gave orders that coffee should be served to them in that room.
The library did not as yet quite justify its name.

There was only one bookcase, and not more than fifty volumes stood on its shelves.

But a large writing-table was well covered with papers.