"Oh, dad," she repeated.
"What's the matter with Sloane ?" he demanded.
"Oh, nothing, nothing--it's all right--" "It is, eh?
How do you know it is ?" His anxious eyes were still upon hers, and he saw she was thinking fast and hard and shutting him completely out.
And it irritated him.

"What do you know of this fellow Sloane ?" "Oh, nothing--nothing--" "Nothing! Humph! Then why do you sit here and say it's all right?
Don't talk like a fool!" he exclaimed.

He waited, but she said no more, and Roger's exasperation increased.

"He has money enough apparently--and they'll spend it like March hares!" Deborah looked up at him: "What did Laura tell you, dear ?" "Not very much.

I'm only her father.