But she did not appear to care to be helped.

Nor did Allan--he rarely came to the house, and he went to Edith's not at all.

He was even absent from her Christmas tree for the children, a jolly little festivity which neither he nor Deborah had missed in years.
"What has got into him ?" Roger asked.

And shortly after Christmas he called the fellow up on the 'phone.

"Drop in for dinner to-night," he urged.