He put it away with annoyance, muttering, "It is time enough to meet misfortune when it comes." The sound of a footstep made him stand erect and face the door.
It was only a sleepy peon with a request that he would go to his father's study.

A different mental atmosphere met him there.

The doctor was walking up and down the room, and Dare and Antonia sat together at the open window.
"Your father wants to hear about our journey, Jack.

Take my chair and tell him what happened.

Antonia and I will walk within hearing; a roof makes me restless such a night as this"; for the waning moon had risen, and the cool wind from the Gulf was shaking a thousand scents from the trees and the flowering shrubs.
The change was made with the words, and the doctor sat down beside his son.