16/29 He found his daughter writing letters in her room. He thought her looking cross, but in deference to her recent anxieties he called it, even in his own mind, overstrained. He is in charge of two lovely young creatures hardly Mathilde's age who have already taken complete control of the household." "You've seen him, of course." "For a few minutes; they allow me a few minutes. They communicate by secret signals when they think I have stayed long enough." Mr.Lanley never knew how to treat this mood of his daughter's, which seemed to him as unreasonable as if it were emotional, and yet as cold as if it were logic itself. |