"It has an association that will always be painful to me.

When people--disappoint me, I try to forget them in every way I can." She paused, and Cardiff saw that her eyes were full of tears.

He had an instant of intense resentment against his daughter.

What brutality had she been guilty of toward Elfrida in that moment of unreasonable jealousy that surged up between them?
He would fiercely like to know.

But Elfrida was smiling again, looking up at him in wilful disregard of her wet eyes.
"Say 'Elfrida' please--all of it." They had reached the Inner Temple Hall.