9/18 But Roger's kindly attitude comforted her, and she smiled at him. "Thank you for waiting up for me. I'm tired, and I'll go straight to my room. The girls have gone up, I suppose." "Wait a moment, Patty," and Van Reypen appeared in the doorway from the sun-parlour, where the two men had been sitting, "wait a moment, I want to speak to you." "Not tonight, Phil, please. I'm very tired." "You ought to be tired! Staying till all hours with that bunch of trash! I'm ashamed of you!" Patty was thoroughly angry. |