She had never really conquered him even in the days when she had made him stand in the corner and go without sugar in his tea.

She well remembered the shocking occasion on which he had flung sugar and basin together into the fire so that the others might be made to share his enforced abstinence.

She believed he was equal to committing a similar act of violence if baulked even now.

But he never was baulked.

At thirty-five he reigned supreme in his own world.