Mrs. Raider shook her head.
“If it had been that, he’d have told me. Your father is always justified in his own eyes.”
“What am I to do about Roddy?”
“We must just wait.”
“Here’s Jack! Well?”
“He’s having a bath as hot as he can bear it. All he said was: ‘This is the first thing you do when you go in, and the first thing you do when you come out—symmetrical, isn’t it?’ I’ve got to take him a cup of coffee. It’s really too thick! The servants can’t help knowing that a Dr. Raider who gets into the bath the moment he comes to call must be our father.”
“It’s comic.”
“Is it? He doesn’t show a sign of shame. He’ll call it from the house-tops. I thought, of course, he’d go abroad.”
“We all thought that.”