In reality, Dannie always had been master.
Now he was not.

Where he lost control he did not know.

He had tried several times to return to the subject of how to bring back happiness to Mary, and Jimmy immediately developed symptoms of another attack of heart disease, a tendency to start for town, or openly defied him by walking away.

Yet, Jimmy stuck to him closer than he ever had, and absolutely refused to go anywhere, or to do the smallest piece of work alone.

Sometimes he grew sullen and morose when he was not drinking, and that was very unlike the gay Jimmy.