Did you see me go through the room just now with a tall gentleman--rather old." "Yes," answered Jocelyn.
"That was Sir John Meredith, Jack's father," said Lady Cantourne in a lowered voice.

"They have quarrelled, you know.

People say that Sir John does not care--that he is heartless, and all that sort of thing.

The world never says the other sort of thing, one finds.

But--but I think I know to the contrary.