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-LSB- Illustration : And then he marched off to bed by himself , suffering no one to go with him . -RSB- A little while later in the evening , Mr. Philip Waters , walking down Broadway -LRB- which thoroughfare was getting to have a fairly suburban look -RRB- , informed the French count that in his , Mr. Waters 's , opinion , young Jacob Dolph would own that house before long . Young Jacob Dolph 's father insisted on repetitions of the bachelor dinner , but he never again appeared in the great dining-room . When there was a stag party he took his own simple dinner at five o'clock and went to bed early , and lay awake until his son had dismissed the last mild reveller , and he could hear the light , firm , young footstep mounting the stairs to the bedroom door opposite his own . * * * * * That was practically the end of it for old Jacob Dolph . The maiden aunt , who had been invited , was notified that she could not come , for Mr. Dolph was not well enough to open his house that winter . But it was delicately intimated to her that if he grew worse she might still be sent for , and that alleviated her natural disappointment .