Then she closed the door.
"Geraldine," she said, "I am not very happy about you and Hugh." "Why not, mother ?" the girl asked, looking out of the window.
"Perhaps because I like Hugh," Lady Conyers went on quietly, "perhaps, too, because I am not sure that you have done wisely.

You haven't given me any reason yet, have you, for breaking your engagement ?" Geraldine was silent for a moment.

Then she came back and sat on the rug at her mother's feet.

She kept her face, however, a little turned away.
"It's so hard to put it into words, mother," she said thoughtfully, "only Hugh never seemed to give me any of his confidence.

Of course, his is very dull work, looking after hospitals and that sort of thing, but still, I'd have liked to try and take an interest in it.