And I certainly never want to see her again! Why, in the name of goodness, did you accept that tea-fight ?" "Because I mean to go." "Then you'll have to go without me," was the incautious reply.
"Oh, so you're afraid of meeting her! I shall know what to think, if you _don't_ go." Daphne sat erect, her hands clasped round her knees.
Roger made a sound of wrath, and threw his cigarette into the fire.
Then, turning round again to face her, he tried to control himself.
"Look here, Daphne, don't let us quarrel about this.

I'll tell you everything you want to know--the whole beastly story.

But it can't be pleasant to me to meet a woman who treated me as she did--and it oughtn't to be pleasant to you either.

It was like her audacity to come this afternoon." "She simply wants to get hold of you again!" Daphne sprang up as she spoke with a violent movement, her face blazing.
"Nonsense! she came out of nothing in the world but curiosity, and because she likes making people uncomfortable.

She knew very well mother and I didn't want her!" But the more he tried to persuade her the more determined was Daphne to pay the promised visit, and that he should pay it with her.