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��He��s spoilt my afternoon,�� she said angrily to herself as the car sped homewards. ��He��s spoilt my afternoon. And he is only a dreamer. He has no right to judge me.��

��Ripping day, isn��t it?�� she said affably. ��Doesn��t it make you feel as if you��d like to turn somersaults on the grass and yell like a wild Indian every time you come right side up?��

After a few minutes Claudia left the two men and walked over to where Gilbert was seated in a chair, reading the Times. He did not suffer from mal de mer, but he always experienced a curious feeling in his head, as though someone had put a band round his forehead.

��You want��a good deal.��

��And no newspapers yet.... I wasn��t cut out for a life of idleness. I��ll go in and write some letters.��

She did not know what to say. She knew it was very unwise for him to go out, but, after all, she could not force him to stay indoors. Neeburg had told her privately that he was very much run down and needed a good rest. Was it a good thing to tell a man he was not as strong as he thought he was? Gilbert was always so proud of his robust health, and so contemptuous of weaker men. An old friend of his, a barrister, who often secured his services, had recently had to go for a sea-voyage owing to nerve-strain, and Gilbert had commented on it with a complete lack of sympathy and understanding. People who got ill easily he dubbed ��weaklings.��

To her surprise Claudia found that the assembled company included her father and mother-in-law. Mrs. Rivington��s set was absolutely antipodal to Lady Currey��s, but as the General was an old friend of Sir John��s Lady Currey occasionally and stiffly countenanced the wife. Since her marriage, the intercourse between Claudia and Gilbert��s family had been of the most formal description, for Lady Currey found nothing to like in Claudia, and her daughter-in-law realized that she was taken on sufferance.

��But, Gilbert,�� expostulated Claudia, contrary to her[269] latter custom of listening, if not in agreement, in non-disagreement, ��you have too much to do already. Don��t you think������

PART II

��As for Mrs. Hamilton being a good mother,�� went on Mrs. Milton, ��she��s been one of the best. Her husband was a small solicitor and left them very badly off. It was she who screwed the money out of the housekeeping that Frank should go to Paris and study painting. Lucy, who was just as clever at music, had to teach herself. I do hope, now he is getting on, that Frank will make their lives easier.��