At any rate, watch or no watch, I suppose you didn't think you'd started to come home in the middle of the afternoon, did you?
And what did you want her to come in for, anyhow?
I'd like to know that.

Answer me, will you ?" "Simply because I thought that it would give you pleasure to see some one, mother.

You often complain of being so lonely, of no one's coming in," replied Stephen, in a tone which was pathetic, almost shrill, from its effort to be patient and calm.
"I wish, if you can't speak in your own voice, you wouldn't speak at all," said the angry woman.

"What makes you change your voice so ?" Stephen made no reply.

He knew very well this strange tone which sometimes came into his voice, when his patience was tried almost beyond endurance.
He would have liked to avoid it; he was instinctively conscious that it often betrayed to other people what he suffered.