They were two men striving for the favor of the same girl.

How Linda would have been amused had she understood the situation, or how Eileen would have been provoked, neither of the men knew nor did they care.
The workmen came after Linda left and went before her return.

Having been cautioned to silence, Katy had not told her when work actually began; and so it happened that, going to her room one evening, she unlocked the door and stepped inside to face the completed fireplace.
The firebox was not very large but ample.

The hearthstone was a big sheet of smooth gray sandstone.

The sides and top were Henry's collection of brilliant boulders, carefully and artistically laid in blue mortar, and over the firebox was set Peter's slab of gray sandstone.