"Your mother can't stand it another year, and I'm breaking up--half blind.

You won't go, will you ?" "No--not right away, father--we'll talk of that later." He was still in the dark as to how it had come about.

All he knew was that for the first time in all his life his father had asked his pardon, and for the first time in his life the barrier which held them apart had been broken down.
The colonel braced himself in his seat in one supreme effort to get himself in hand.

One of his boasts was that he had never lost his self-control.

Harry rose to his feet and stood beside him.