Then he would work furiously for hours; and the work when done was good.

For there would be in it a kind of passion, a warmth born of the very effort and friction of the will which had been necessary to get it done at all.
Nora, however, had not come in to gossip.

She was in a white heat.
"Father!--we ought not to let Connie furnish her own rooms!" "But, my dear, who thinks of her doing any such thing?
What do you mean ?" And Dr.Hooper took his pipe out of his mouth, and stood protesting.
"She's gone out, she and Annette.

They slipped out just now when mother came in to you; and I'm certain they've gone to B's"-- the excited girl named a well-known Oxford furniture shop--"to buy all sorts of things." "Well, after all, it's my house!" said the Reader, smiling.

"Connie will have to ask my leave first." "Oh, she'll persuade you!" cried Nora, standing before her father with her hands behind her.