"I wouldn't fight women," said Chris scornfully.
"And now I suppose you'll go home and tell your mother how wicked I am, and she'll never let me come near you again!"
The children were silent for a moment, then Diana said steadily:
"We tell Mother everything, but she won't be angry, only sorry."
"And now I know who does always live in your house," said Noel in his eager, breathless way: "it's the Devil!"
This statement reduced Inez to silence.
Chris hurried his sister and brother down the drive, and Inez stopped still and gazed after them with tears in her eyes.
"Good-bye," Chris said, looking back and waving his cap, "and thank you for a very nice time."
Inez made no answer: she turned and walked back slowly to the house. Noel's strange words rang in her ears: "Julia says I'm a young devil," she said to herself slowly. "I wonder if it is the Devil that makes me get into such tempers. I don't like to think he lives in the house with me."
Meanwhile Chris was saying to Noel: