“I’m blessed if I know.”

“Well, we’ll start a new game. Sam, I’ll give you six balls and beat you in”⁠—he looked at his watch⁠—“beat you before half-past nine.”

“For a dollar?”

“I never bet, Sam, and you know it.”

Half an hour later Jadwin said:

“Shall we go down and join the ladies? Don’t put out your cigar. That’s one bargain I made with Laura before we moved in here⁠—that smoking was allowable everywhere.”

“Room enough, I guess,” observed the broker, as the two stepped into the elevator. “How many rooms have you got here, by the way?”