” It occurred to her that she had never seen her father dining out before, never watched him critically as an equal. ‘You are stubborn like a mule. I was certain of it. “I might return the compliment, Courtlaw,” he answered, “by asking why the devil you come lurching on to the pavement like a drunken man. There was a case, or something, some years ago. The subterranean level of the Diedermayer house was fully bedecked with every luxury known to mankind. A stack of chimneys, on the house above them, had yielded to the storm, and descended in a shower of bricks and stones. “But why,” he said in the gasping voice of one subduing an agony, and looked at her from under a pain-wrinkled brow, “why did you not tell me this before?” “I didn’t know—I thought I might be able to control myself. We went our ways. My mind is full of ideas and images that I have been cherishing and accumulating—dreams of travelling side by side, of lunching quietly together in some jolly restaurant, of moonlight and music and all that side of life, of seeing you dressed like a queen and shining in some brilliant throng—mine; of your looking at flowers in some old-world garden, our garden—there are splendid places to be got down in Surrey, and a little runabout motor is quite within my means. I know in Paris you pinched and scraped that your sister might have the dresses and entertainments she desired. ’ ‘Where then is your uniform?’ ‘I don’t wear it to balls. He bullied frankly.
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