He brought it out abruptly-- "And what about your daughter ?" "My daughter is going to London with my sister for a prolonged visit," said Robert Turold hurriedly.

"She needs womanly training and other advantages which I, in my preoccupations, have been unable to bestow upon her.

It is greatly to her advantage to go." Robert Turold gave this explanation with averted face, in a tone which sounded almost apologetic.

The relative positions between them seemed curiously reversed.

It was as though Thalassa were the master, and the other the man.
"Oh, that's it, is it ?" Thalassa turned a cautious yet penetrating eye upon his master.