breakfast to find that Jonah had already left for Huntercombe, I
was more hurt than surprised. But, when Daphne appeared during
the marmalade, clad in a new riding-habit, I made haste to empty
my mouth.

"You can't ride there," I said. "The traffic's too heavy.
Besides, the tram-lines- "

"You don't want me, old chap," said my sister, stooping to lay
her soft cheek against mine, as she passed to her place.

I drank some coffee with an injured air. Then:

"This," I said, "is low down. Not nice. I don't like it in you.
It argues- "

" -the confidence we repose in your judgment," said Daphne.

"Yes, brother," said Berry, looking up from The Sportsman. "The
bath-dressing-gown has fallen upon your rounded shoulders. Ill
though it becomes you, I trust that- "

"Enough," said I. "Alone I will select a bath. Doubtless you
will all deplore my choice as bitterly as you will fight with one
another for the privilege of using it. However. When I am dead,
you will regret- "

No, we shan't," said my brother-in-law. "We shall just bury you
under another name and try to keep the obituary notices out of
the papers."