later-comer

Updated: May 9, 2025

Long before he had finished, both women, by some simple feminine intuition, were relieved and even prepossessed by his voice and manner. They smiled graciously. The later-comer pointed to the empty chair. But with his habit of pertinacious conscientiousness the stranger continued, "It was regularly stupid, wasn't it? and I ought to have known better.

Bret Harte - A Phyllis of the Sierras