"I myself shall telephone to see if Elizabeth has returned.

If she is still away, I shall spend an hour or two, I think, with my friends at the Blue Room Club.

Beatrice, this has been a joy to me, a joy soon, I hope, to be repeated." He took both her hands.

She smiled at him with an attempt at cheerfulness.
"Good-night, father!" she said.
"And to you, sir, also, good-night!" the professor added, taking Tavernake's hand and holding it for a minute in his, while he looked impressively in his face.

"I will not say too much, but I will say this: so much as I have seen of you, I like.