He half turned to her.

“I want to see the Latimer paintings. May I come down after dinner, and have a chat with your mother?”

She felt something rise in her throat, a faint spasm of resistance that lasted only for a moment.

“But—the artificial light?”

“I want to see them.”

It was not so much a surrender on her part as a tacit acceptance of his enthusiasm.

“Yes, come.”

“Thank you.”


CHAPTER XIII