You knew about that ?" "Oh, yes." "And why they fell out ?" "Yes." "Well, he might have thought the other fellow had been telling tales, and that I had come out to have an eye on him, if he had known that I happened to see his mother just before I started." There was another pause; but now I was committed to an attitude, and prepared for the worst.
"Perhaps there would have been some truth in it ?" suggested Mrs.
Lascelles.
"Perhaps," I agreed, "a little." The pause now was the longest of all.

It had no terrors for me.

Another cloud had come between us and the moon.

I was sorry for that.

I felt that I was missing something.