Kitty was scandalized.

"That's not sport!" she said.

"Oh, yes, it is," he answered--"sport to the fish." They went on with their angling.

What embarrassing question would Kitty ask next?
Would she want to be told why her father had left her?
No: the last image in the child's mind had been the image of Sydney Westerfield.
She was still thinking of it when she spoke again.
"I wonder whether you're right about Syd ?" she began.

"You might be mistaken, mightn't you?
I sometimes fancy mamma and Sydney may have had a quarrel.