We both understand." Which accounts for the fact that Lad, within the next half hour, was preparing to spend his first night away from home and from the two people who were his gods.

He was not at all happy.

It had been an interesting day.

But its conclusion did not please Laddie, in any manner.
And, when things did not please Lad, he had a very determined fashion of trying to avoid them;--unless perchance the Mistress or the Master had decreed otherwise.
The Master had brought him to this obnoxious strange place.

But he had not bidden Lad stay there.