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Updated: July 1, 2025
"I'd rather not, father I don't feel as if I wanted to see the Hamworths at all just now. I'm sure that when you explain everything to them, they will understand." Utterly discomfited and disappointed, and feeling for the first time really angry with poor Nancy Dampier, Senator Burton took his departure for the station, alone. Perquisition?
"I shall be glad too," said the Senator slowly: how glad he would be neither of his children knew or guessed. "And now, Daisy, I hope you won't be long in getting ready to start for the station. I should be sorry indeed if the Hamworths' train came in before we reached there." "Father! Surely you don't want me to leave Nancy this morning of all mornings?
"She has told Gerald exactly what it is like," chimed in Daisy. The Senator looked from one to the other: he felt both helpless and indignant. "The Hamworths are among the oldest friends we have in the world," he exclaimed. "Surely one of you will come with me? I'm not asking you to leave Mrs. Dampier for long, Daisy." But Daisy shook her head decidedly.
Madame Poulain, with the adaptability of her kind the adaptability which makes the French innkeeper the best in the world, always served a real "American breakfast" in the Burtons' salon. As his son made no answer to his remark, he went on, "I should like to be at the station a few minutes before the Hamworths' train is due."
The Hamworths were arriving in Paris at ten the next morning, and they asked the Senator and his children to join them at lunch at Bignon's.
What a comfort it would be, even to Gerald and to Daisy, to forget for a moment this strange, painful affair, and to spend three or four hours with old friends! Gerald looked up. "I'm not coming, father. You will have to make my apologies to the Hamworths. Of course I should have liked to see them. But Mrs. Dampier has asked me to be present at the search.
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