He breakfasted in his own room, because he could thus eat his breakfast in ten minutes.

He read all the papers in solitude, because he was thus enabled to give his mind to their contents.

Life had always been too serious to him to be wasted.

Every afternoon he walked for the sake of exercise, and would have accepted any companion if any companion had especially offered himself.

But he went off by some side-door, finding the side-door to be convenient, and therefore when seen by others was supposed to desire to remain unseen.