Sylvia's face grew crimson, her eyes for once wavered from his face, and she lowered her head.

Garratt Skinner, however, seemed not to notice her confusion.
"You remember," he continued, "that I tried to stop them playing cards at the beginning.

I yielded in the end, because it became perfectly clear that if I didn't they would go away and play elsewhere, while I at all events could keep the points down in my own house.

I ought to have stayed up, I suppose, until they went away.

I blame myself there a little.