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His uneasiness had not passed away, for many things in truth were dark to him. He couldn't see his father fraternising with Mr. Dosson, he couldn't see Margaret and Jane recognising an alliance in which Delia was one of the allies. He had answered for them because that was the only thing to do, and this only just failed to be criminally reckless.
Now he wanted his father and Jane and Margaret to do the same, and above all he wanted them to like her even as she, Susan, liked her. He was delighted she had been taken he had been so taken himself. Mme. de Brecourt protested that she had reserved her independence of judgement, and he answered that if she thought Miss Dosson repulsive he might have expressed it in another way.
Dosson had characteristically constituted himself host and administrator, with the young journalist as his deputy. He liked to invite people and to pay for them, and disliked to be invited and paid for. He was never inwardly content on any occasion unless a great deal of money was spent, and he could be sure enough of the large amount only when he himself spent it.
"Well, you'll never need to insist about anything any more!" she cried. And with this she dashed out of the room by the nearest door. When Delia and Mr. Dosson returned the red salon was empty and Francie was again locked in her room. But this time her sister forced an entrance. Mr.
"Where's the meanness when I suppose you're not so ridiculous as to wish to be anything more!" "More to your sister, do you mean or to yourself?" "My sister IS myself I haven't got any other," said Delia Dosson. "Any other sister?" "Don't be idiotic. Are you still in the same business?" the girl went on. "Well, I forget which one I WAS in."
Dosson, little as he resembles a sporting character, found it a great resource, on fine afternoons, to drive with a highly scientific hand and from a smart Americaine, in the Bois de Boulogne.
I never saw people so affected." Delia's face grew big with her stare. "So affected?" "Ah yes, I guess there's a good deal OF THAT," said Mr. Dosson. "It's too real too terrible; you don't understand. It's all printed there that they're immoral, and everything about them; everything that's private and dreadful," Francie explained. "Immoral, is that so?" Mr. Dosson threw off.
"Oh, well, you'll see as much as you want of us the way you'll have to take us," Delia Dosson said: which led the young man to ask which that way was and to guess he had never known but one way to take anything which was just as it came. "Oh well, you'll see what you'll make of it," the girl returned; and she would give for the present no further explanation of her somewhat chilling speech.
"Why don't you take him and let Francie take the other?" Mr. Dosson continued. "That's just what I'm after to make her take the other," said his elder daughter. "Take him how do you mean?" Francie returned. "Oh you know how." "Yes, I guess you know how!" Mr. Dosson laughed with an absence of prejudice that might have been deplored in a parent.
"He has taken us to ever so many stores where he gets his commission." "Well, I'd pay you to take them round," said Mr. Dosson; and with much agreeable trifling of this kind it was agreed that they should sally forth for the evening meal under Mr. Flack's guidance.
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