Where is he ?" They had come to call the new American lawyer "The Enemy." No one knew his name, or cared to know it, for that matter.

Bowles, in answer to the telephone inquiries of Saunders, said that the new solicitor had taken temporary quarters above the bank and was in hourly consultation with Von Blitz, Rasula and others.

Much of his time was spent at the mines.
Later on, it was commonly reported, he was to take up his residence in Wyckholme's deserted bungalow, far up on the mountain side, in plain view from the chateau.
Life at the chateau had not been allowed to drag.

The Deppinghams and the Brownes confessed in the privacy of their chambers that there was scant diplomacy in their "carryings-on," but without these indulgences the days and nights would have been intolerable.
The white servants had become good friends, despite the natural disdain that the trained English expert feels for the unpolished American domestic.

Antipathies were overlooked in the eager strife for companionship; the fact that one of Mrs.Browne's maids was of Irish extraction and the other a rosy Swede may have had something to do with their admission into the exclusive set below stairs, but that is outside the question.