Thomas said he would find out, though that now Rose was going to marry Simon, it didn’t matter so much whether father wrote or not. “Oh, Thomas, it does!” I cried. “It matters most terribly to father. And to us, too — because if all the eccentric things he’s been doing, on and off for months now, aren’t leading somewhere, well, then he is going crazy. And a crazy father’s not a good idea, quite apart from our tender feelings towards him.” “Have you tender feelings towards him? I don’t know that I have — not that I dislike him.”
