You'd have started again and then got tired and not have stayed with it." She spread out her hands impatiently.

"That's the kind of man you are!" "I'm afraid it's true," Charnock admitted.

"But I hope you like me all the same." Sadie was silent for a few moments, but her color was higher and Charnock mused.

He supposed she meant she could have persuaded her father to come to his help, and it looked as if she well knew his failings.

Still he felt rather amused than resentful.
"We'll let that go," she resumed.