My man's reliable but he is in a terrible minority.

The conference took place in the library.

It lasted about an hour and a half.

Selingman and Draconmeyer came out looking fairly well satisfied.
Half-an-hour later Douaille went on to Mentone, to the Hotel Splendide, where his wife and daughters are staying.

No writing at all was done in the room." "The conference has really begun, then," Hunterleys observed moodily.
"Without a doubt," Roche declared.