"You will just sit down, and eat your dinner like a sensible man," she said.
"You are a Canadian and not expected to say nice things like those others from the old country.

They don't always do it very well, and, though Jack is fond of them, they make me tired now and then." Alton took his place beside her, and speedily found himself at home.
Save for the naval officer and two English financiers the men present had a stake in the future of that country, and as usual neither they nor their womenkind considered it out of place to talk of their affairs.

They were also men of mark, though several of them who now held large issues in very capable hands had commenced life as wielders of the axe.

Most of them had heard of Alton of the Somasco Consolidated, and those who had not listened with attention when he spoke, for it was evident that they and the rancher had the same cause at heart.

Alice Deringham noticed this, and, though he was not conscious of it, little Alton did that night escaped her attention.
She saw that while he rarely asserted himself, these men, whom she knew were regarded with respect as leaders of great industries, accepted him as an equal when they had heard him speak, but that caused her less surprise than the fashion in which he adapted himself to his surroundings.