He admired Hamilton, but after reading all about the two men, gave his sympathy to Burr, "a clever, unlucky little chap," he said.
"Why do clever men hate each other ?" and then he smiled queerly as he remembered political enemies of great men in his own day and his own country; and concluded that "it was their nature to do so." But in these outside enthusiasms he did not forget his personal relations.

It took him but a few days to domesticate himself in both the Rawdon houses.

When the weather drove him off the streets, he found a pleasant refuge either with Madam or with Ethel and Miss Bayard.

Ethel he saw less frequently than he liked; she was nearly always with Dora Denning, but with Ruth Bayard he contracted a very pleasant friendship.
He told her all his adventures and found her more sympathetic than Madam ever pretended to be.

Madam thought him provincial in his tastes, and was better pleased to hear that he had a visiting entry at two good clubs, and had hired a motor ear, and was learning how to manage it.
Then she told herself that if he was good to her, she would buy him one to be proud of before he returned to Yorkshire.
It was at the Elite Club Bryce Denning first saw him.