She quoted, meeting his adoring eyes with full understanding:
"And I think, in the lives of most women and men,
There's a moment when all would go smooth and even--"
She drew him gently with her when she stepped backward.
She had heard the Senator's voice in the corridor; he was escorting
Governor North.
On the panels of the screen were embroidered some particularly grotesque
Japanese countenances. Those pictured personages seemed to be making up
faces at the dignitaries who passed the open door.
"But I must go to your father, sweetheart," Stewart insisted. "I'd best do
it this morning and have it all over with."
This declaration as to duty and deference was not made while Senator
Corson was passing the door; nor was it made with anything like the
promptitude the Senator might have expected in a matter which was so
vitally concerned with a father's interests. In fact it was a long, long
time before Stewart had anything to say on that subject. If Senator Corson
had been listening again on the other side of the screen, he, no doubt,
would have been mightily offended by a delay which seemed to make the
father an afterthought in the whole business.
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