"That's it," he ruefully told himself, "Edith takes after her father." And the same curious feeling which he had had with Laura, came back to him with her sister.

This daughter, too, was a part of himself.

His deep instinctive craving to keep to himself and his family was living on in Edith, was already dominating her home.

What a queer mysterious business it was, this tie between a man and his child.
He was thinking of this when Baird arrived.

Allan Baird was not only the doctor who had brought Edith's children into the world, he was besides an intimate friend, he had been Bruce's room-mate at college.