To save the patience of that journalist, Senator Hanway called Richard's attention to the veranda door, and commissioned him to make use of it.

Senator Hanway said that he did not wish to subject one whom he valued so highly, and who was on such near terms with his good friend, Mr.Gwynn, to the slow ceremony which attended a regular invasion of the premises.
Richard thanked Senator Hanway, although he could have liked it better had he been less thoughtfully polite.

Richard would have preferred the main floor, with whatever delay and formal clatter such entrance made imperative.

The more delay and the more clatter, the more chance of seeing Dorothy.

It struck him with a dubious chill when Senator Hanway suddenly distinguished him with the freedom of that veranda door--a franchise upon which your statesman laid flattering emphasis, saying that not ten others had been granted it.
This episode of the veranda door befell upon the earliest visit which Richard made in his quality of correspondent of the _Daily Tory_.