The professor talked of Assyria, and there was no man who had had stranger experiences.

He talked with the eloquence and fervor of a man who speaks of things which have become a passion with him; so vividly, indeed, that more than once he seemed to carry his listeners with him, back through the ages, back into actual touch with the life of thousands of years ago, which he described with such full and picturesque detail.

Not at any time during the dinner was the slightest allusion made to that last heated interview which had taken place between the three men.

Even when they sat out in the palm court afterwards, and smoked and listened to the band and watched the people, Mr.Bomford only distantly alluded to it.
"I want to ask you, Mr.Burton," he said, "what you think of your surroundings--of the restaurant and your neighbors on every side ?" "The restaurant is very beautiful," Burton admitted.

"The whole place seems delightful.