"Don't rise, I'll find a place somewhere. I am delinquent I know; what's this—a roast?"
"Now don't you pretend to be starving just to please me; this Sunday evening dinner was given for me especially," said Sanborn.
"Hungry? Of course I'm hungry. I've come all the way from Fifty-second street."
Professor Roberts was a middle-aged man, with a chin whisker. He had a small, elegant figure, and his eyes were humorous.
Everybody took on new life the moment he came in.
"The fact is I got bridged," he explained, after being introduced to Rose.
"All from living on the south side," said Paul.
"I know—I know! However, somebody must live on the south side, and so I stay to keep up the general average."
"How modest and kind of you!"
"Professor belongs to the University settlement—down near the Indiana line," explained Paul to Rose.