"His father hasn't done for him what he led me to believe he would," explained Devitt gloomily.
"You can find him something?" suggested Miss Spraggs.
"And, till you do, I'd better ask them to stay down here," said his wife.
"That part of it's all right," remarked Devitt. "But somehow I don't think Charlie—-"
"What?" interrupted Mrs Devitt.
"Is much of a hand at work," replied her husband.
No one said anything for a few minutes.
Mrs Devitt spoke next.
"I'm scarcely surprised at Major Perigal's refusal to do anything for Charles," she remarked.
"Why?" asked her husband.