Besides--I have still a greater fear than the one of which you know.

I don't want Dick, when he grows up, ever to think that I have been cowardly, and, because I was cowardly, disloyal to his father." "Yes, I see," said Colonel Dewes.
And this time he really did understand.
"We will go in and lunch," said Sybil, and they walked back to the house..