In the elevator he encountered Colonel Prentiss Drew.

On both sides the meeting was not without its difficulties.

The Colonel had been dazed by the inexplicable situation between Monty and his daughter, whose involutions he found hard to understand.

Her summary of the effort she had made to effect a reconciliation, after hearing the story of the bank, was rather vague.
She had done her utmost, she said, to be nice to him and make him feel that she appreciated his generosity, but he took it in the most disagreeable fashion.

Colonel Drew knew that things were somehow wrong; but he was too strongly an American father to interfere in a matter of the affections.