He came to me one day in the garden looking as white as a sheet,--that was the day before the cheque was missed,--and told me, in a conscience-stricken voice, that it was all up between him and Giles, he had got into a passion and struck Giles across the face.
'"I don't know why he did not knock me down," cried the poor lad.

"I deserved it, for I saw him wince with the pain; but he only took me by the shoulder--you know how strong Giles is--and turned me out of the room without saying a word, and there was the mark of my hand across his cheek.

I feel like Cain, I do indeed, Gladys, 'For he that hateth his brother is a murderer'; and I hate Giles." And the poor boy--he was only twenty, Ursula--put his head down on my shoulder and sobbed like a child.
If only Giles could have seen him then!' 'Do you know what passed between them ?' 'Yes; I heard a little from both of them.

Some of Eric's bills had been opened accidentally by Giles.

Etta had told Giles that they were his, and he had called Eric to account.