Waldron, from the back seat, raised an answering hand--though without enthusiasm.

Above all things he hated demonstration, and the girl's frank manner, free, unconventional and not yet broken to the harness of Mrs.Grundy, never failed to irritate him.
"Very incorrect for people in our set," he often thought.

"But for the present I can do nothing.

Once she is my wife, ah, then I shall find means to curb her.

For the present, however, I must let her have her head." Such was now his frame of mind as the long car slid under the porte-cochere and came to a stand.