But 't was only for a second.

The next moment his eyes were very grave and looking at Aunt Jane.
"I have no cause to complain--of my daughter's lessons to-day," he said very quietly.

Then he glanced over at me again.

But I had to look away _quick_, or I would have laughed right out.
When he got up from the table he said to me: "I shall expect to see you to-morrow in the library at four, Mary." And Mary answered, "Yes, Father," polite and proper, as she should; but Marie inside was just chuckling with the joke of it all.
The next day I watched again at four for Father to come up the walk; and when he had come in I went down to the library.

He was there in his pet seat before the fireplace.