"What a splendid dining-room!"
"Isn't it? And you will get a splendid meal!" He called a negro and said: "Tobin, bring us the best dinner you can serve."
The order was promptly and amply obeyed, and before dinner was half over Robert's irritability and faintness had vanished, and he was the usual assertive, domineering Robert Campbell. But not until they had finished eating, and were sitting in the shady court with their cigars would David allow their personal conversation to be renewed. He began it by saying:
"You will wish to see Theodora to-morrow, I suppose?"
"I wish to see her at once—to-night."
"That will not do! You want a good sleep, you want a bath and a barber, and some decent clothes on you."
"I am not going courting, David."
"Then you need not go at all. You will require to do the best courting you ever did, or ever can do, if you hope to get a hearing from Theodora."
"She is my wife, David, and she——"
"Will be far harder to win, than ever Miss Newton was."