He looked again at the pondering Tinker; and his helpless irritation found the natural English vent in grumbling.
"Look here," he said, half querulously, half whimsically, "I told you that if you went on adding to our household, I should be travelling about Europe with a caravan.

You began by adopting Elsie as a sister, and I said nothing.

Then you added Miss Rainer as her governess, and I warned you.

Miss Rainer added her father, a millionaire, and he added a maid, a valet, two secretaries, a courier, and a private detective.
All these people, I know them well, will marry; and I shall be a patriarch travelling with my tribe.

It must stop." Tinker sighed.