16/21 Come along with us in the morning. Your father...." Prudence felt the hands stiffen oddly; and again the thought came to her that perhaps this poor child's father had once been, perhaps still was, in the same category as this Taber. Even if he were an old friend, you couldn't afford to do it. But a total stranger, a man you never saw twenty-four hours ago! It can't be thought of. "Is it wrong, then, to surrender to good impulses ?" "In the present instance, yes. |