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Then he remembered that he ought to see them
to the elevator, so he took them out--and shook hands again. After that
he concluded it was his duty to see them to the carriage--and he shook
hands again.
Peter was not an experienced hand, but he was doing very well.


CHAPTER XXXIX.
THE DUDE.

Just as Peter came back to his office, his lunch was announced.
"What makes you look so happy?" asked Ray.
"Being so," said Peter, calmly.
"What a funny old chap he is?" Ray remarked to Ogden, as they went back
to work. "He brought me his opinion, just after lunch, in the
Hall-Seelye case. I suppose he had been grubbing all the morning over
those awful figures, and a tougher or dryer job, you couldn't make. Yet
he came in to lunch looking as if he was walking on air."
When Peter returned to his office, he would have preferred to stop work
and think for a bit. He wanted to hold those violets, and smell them now
and then. He wished to read that letter over again. He longed to have a
look at that bit of ribbon and gold.


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