So we would meet the next morning at breakfast, he knowing that I was a liar, I knowing that he knew that I was a liar, and both pretending that we were all in all to each other.

A small thing, Sylvia.

But crowd your life with such small things?
Spying and deceit and a game of catch-as-catch-can played by the father and son! My letters were read--I used to know, for roundabout questions would be put leading up to the elucidation of a sentence which to any one but myself would be obscure! Do you think any child could grow up straight, if his boyhood passed in that atmosphere of trickery?
I don't know.

Only I think that before I was fifteen my way of life was a sure and settled thing.

It was certain that I should develop upon the lines on which I was trained." Garratt Skinner rose from his seat.
"There, I have done," he said.