“Claudia, I want to talk to you. Open the door.”
But still no movement in the room or any sign that she had heard him, though he felt sure she must have done so.
Then, with a shrug of his shoulders and a compression of his lips that made him very like his father, he turned away.
Two minutes later he was fast asleep. His father was right, was his last reflection. There was no good trying to understand women.
CHAPTER V
THE GIRLIE GIRL
The next morning, when Claudia opened her eyes after a bad and restless night, she knew by Johnson’s voice that some agitation was in the air.
“Madam, I am sorry to wake you so early, but your mother has been ringing you up on the telephone. She insisted on my waking you.”
For a moment Claudia’s dark eyes, still heavy with sleep, stared at her vaguely. Then she sat up in bed with a look of alarm. “What time is it? Half-past eight, and mother wants to speak to me. Why, she is never wakened until ten! What can have happened?”