"Your parents took you abroad quite as a child?"
"I went with my father. My mother died when I was quite small."
Sir James did not speak for a moment. At last he said:
"But before you went abroad, you lived in London?"
"Yes--in Kensington Square."
Sir James made a sudden movement which displaced a book on a little table beside him. He stooped to pick it up.
"And your father was tired of England?"
Diana hesitated--
"I--I think he had gone through great trouble. He never got over mamma's death."
"Oh yes, I see," said Sir James, gently. Then, in another tone: