And I'm sure it's demoralizing." She spoke so sincerely that he could not have resented it, even had her words raised a far feebler echo within him.

"I don't honestly believe, Del, that my caution with father is from fear of his shutting down on me, any more than yours is," he replied.

"I know he cares for me.

And often I don't let him see me as I am simply because it'd hurt him if he knew how differently I think and feel about a lot of things." "But are you right ?--or is he ?" Arthur did not answer immediately.

He had forgotten his horses; they were jogging along, heads down and "form" gone.