It was she herself, however, who recalled the distressing situation.
"How's Mr. Good?" she asked. Somewhat to his surprise her father echoed the question, with what seemed like more than a mere polite interest.
Briefly he told the simple facts as they had occurred, refraining from any attempt at explanation.
"But didn't he give any reason?" asked Mollie incredulously, when he had finished.
"Not a one."
"Did he say there was a reason?" Roger thought it a little odd that the Judge should manifest such concern for a person with whom he could have had only the slightest acquaintance.
"Yes," he admitted, "he did."
"But he wouldn't give it?"
"No. And he skipped so fast I didn't have time to press him much."
"Have you any hypothesis?" The Judge fingered his watch chain nervously. It occurred to Roger that he was making an effort to seem only mildly interested.