"I've done some successful operations in my day; I've played about with bones and sinews, proud of my work sometimes, but the making of a perfect salad is the proud achievement of a master-mind." He laughed like a boy.

"'Come hither, come hither, my little daughter, and do not tremble so,'" he said so cheerfully as to be almost jeering.
His cheerfulness was not in vain, for a smile stole to her lips, though it only flickered for an instant and was gone.

For all that, he knew he had saved the situation, and that another chapter of the life-history of Orlando and Louise had been ended.

A fresh chapter would begin tomorrow; but sufficient unto the day was the evil thereof..