Never again! And Tod I didn't see at all; I suppose he was mooning about amongst his creatures." It was the memory of this visit, now seventeen years ago, that had made her smile so indulgently when Stanley came back from the conference.

She had said at once that they must have Felix to stay, and for her part she would be only too glad to do anything she could for those poor children of Tod's, even to asking them to Becket, and trying to civilize them a little....

"But as for that woman, there'll be nothing to be done with her, I can assure you.

And I expect Tod is completely under her thumb." To Felix, who took her in to dinner, she spoke feelingly and in a low voice.

She liked Felix, in spite of his wife, and respected him--he had a name.