I could hear them through the ceiling going it like hammer and tongs." "Do you mean to tell me that Miss Jacobi and her brother quarrel ?" asked Malcolm in a disgusted voice.

Then Cedric looked as if he had said more than he intended.
"No, not quarrel," rather hesitatingly.

"It takes two to do that, you know, and Leah--Miss Jacobi, I mean," biting his lip--"is much too fond of her brother to quarrel with him; but Jacobi has a temper, you see." "Oh, he has a temper, has he ?" "Well, lots of people have, if you come to that," returned Cedric, who evidently repented his frankness.

"Jacobi is a decent fellow, but he is hot and peppery, and when things go crooked he lashes out a bit.
Something must have vexed him last night, for he came into the drawing-room looking very much put out.

Miss Jacobi had just gone upstairs, and he went after her at once." "And then they quarrelled ?" "Well, not quarrelled exactly; but there was a good deal of talking, don't you know.