I told how we heard a war-story about a "train of
gunpowder," and proceeded to lay such a train about the attic of
Castleman Hall, and set fire to it. I might have spent the afternoon
teaching the future churchman how to be a boy, if I hadn't suddenly
caught a glimpse of my husband's face!"
12. I did not hear these stories all at once. I have put them
together here because they make a little picture of her honeymoon,
and also because they show how, without meaning it, she was giving
me an account of her husband.
There had been even fewer adventures in the life of young Douglas
van Tuiver than in the life of the Honourable Reginald Annersley.
When one heard the details of the up-bringing of this "millionaire
baby," one was able to forgive him for being self-centred. He had
grown into a man who lived to fulfil his social duties, and he had
taken to wife a girl who was reckless, high-spirited, with a streak
of almost savage pride in her.
Sylvia's was the true aristocratic attitude towards the rest of the
world. It could never have occurred to her to imagine that anywhere
upon the whole earth there were people superior to the Castlemans of
Castleman County.
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