Then, halfway to London, Daniel (as a sort of experiment) had professed to be shocked that Isaac intended to lodge in an inn. Daniel would not hear of it – not when Raleigh had put so many Waterhouse assets into constructing a large new house on Holborn. At this point Isaac's eyes had bulged even more than usual and he had adopted his suffering-martyr look, and relented only when Daniel mentioned that Raleigh's house was so large, and had so many empty rooms, that Daniel wasn't sure if they would ever see each other.