But he saw only Peter, looking at him with his father's grey eyes set in a boy's thin face.
"My experience as a barrister," he said, with a curious sense of repeating himself, "has taught me that it is possible for two persons to take diametrically opposite views of the same question." "And what happens then ?" said Peter, stupidly.
"Our bread and butter." "But _why_ should my mother leave the place she's lived in for years and years, and go gadding about all over the world--at her time of life?
I don't see what can be said for the wisdom of that ?" "Nothing from your point of view, I dare say," said John.

"Much from hers.

If you are willing to listen, and if," he added smiling, as an afterthought, "you will promise not to interrupt ?" "Well," said Peter, rather doubtfully, "all right, I promise.

You won't be long, I suppose ?" He glanced stealthily down towards the ferry, though he knew that Sarah would not be there for a couple of hours at least, and that he could reach it in less than ten minutes.

But half the pleasure of meeting Sarah consisted in waiting for her at the trysting-place.
John observed the glance, and smiled imperceptibly.