Lord Yelverton with a new perception realised that because she was involved so deeply she could not speak of her father's suffering unless she made it seem an ordinary tale.
He was also certain that this was the first time she had spoken of it to any outsider, and because he was deeply interested he did not wish to interrupt.
“When he found that made him ill,” Tula went on, “he chose a different way to try and forget.”
Lord Yelverton knew without her putting it into words that this had been women.
He could see the long succession of women who had lived with Audenshaw, who were doubtless genuinely in love with him, while to him they were only a narcotic, a drug to make him forget what he had lost.
“Later,” Tula continued, “we wandered from place to place, and Papa was so restless that
