"A coward, and you go quietly down to Surrey and confront your father with that story to tell to him! You do not even write! You stand up and tell it to him face to face! Harry, I reckon myself as good as another when it comes to bravery, but for the life of me I could not have done that." "It was not--pleasant," said Feversham, simply; and this was the only description of the interview between father and son which was vouchsafed to any one.

But Lieutenant Sutch knew the father and knew the son.

He could guess at all which that one adjective implied.

Harry Feversham told the results of his journey into Surrey.
"My father continues my allowance.

I shall need it, every penny of it--otherwise I should have taken nothing.