"Did you know that he was a writer?"
"Yes."
"And that he published what he wrote?"
"No."
"I think he had just gone away when I entered college. This man Utterly was at Commencement. I never saw a man I liked less. What did you do while you were away?"
"I bought some clothes and visited an old friend and selected a piano, a very fine piano for Eleanor Bent."
"She plays well, doesn't she?"
"Yes, but not as well as Richard Lister." In the darkness Thomasina turned upon Dr. Green an inquiring glance. "It is the finest piano in the county."
Dr. Green did not seem interested in Eleanor Bent's piano. "This man said he found some stories of Basil Everman's; wasn't that it?"
"Yes."