Yet the impulse was always a loving impulse--and the regrets were sincere.
As to the relation to Anderson, Philip was here the pivot of the situation exactly as he had been in Canada.

Just as his physical weakness, and the demands he founded upon it had bound the Canadian to their chariot wheels in the Rockies, so now--_mutatis mutandis_--in London.

Mrs.Gaddesden before a week was over had become pitifully dependent upon him, simply because Philip was pleased to desire his society, and showed a flicker of cheerfulness whenever he appeared.

She was torn indeed between her memory of Elizabeth's sobbing, and her hunger to give Philip the moon out of the sky, should he happen to want it.

Sons must come first, daughters second; such has been the philosophy of mothers from the beginning.