Mr. Delane smiled at his daughter.
"Would you like to know him, Jan?" he asked.
"Of course I should! He wouldn't be dull, at all events, like most of the men about here, Tora Smith said the Colonel meant to call."
"Colonel Smith is hardly in your father's position, my dear."
"Oh, since old Smith had his row with the War Office about that pension, he'll call on anybody who's for upsetting everything. It's enough for him that a man's a Radical."
"Tora means to go, too," said Janet.
"Poor child! It's a pity she hasn't a mother," said Mrs. Delane.
"I think I shall go. We can drop him if he turns out badly."
"Very well, my dear, as you think best."