He was not allowed to
discover the state of affairs between Sylvia and her husband, but he
saw his cousin reading serious books, and his contribution to the
problem was to tell her that she would get wrinkles in her face, and
that even her feet would grow big, like those of the ladies in New
England.
Also, there was the young physician who kept watch over Sylvia's
health; a dapper little man with pink and white complexion, and a
brown moustache from which he could not keep his fingers. He had a
bungalow to himself, but sometimes he went along on the
launch-trips, and Sylvia thought she observed wrinkles of amusement
round his eyes whenever she differed from her husband on the subject
of Burke. She suspected this young man of not telling all his ideas
to his multi-millionaire patients, and she was entertained by the
prospect of probing him.
Then came Mrs. Varina Tuis; who since the tragic cutting of her own
domestic knot, had given her life to the service of the happier
members of the Castleman line. She was now to be companion and
counsellor to Sylvia; and on the very day of her arrival she
discovered the chasm that was yawning in her niece's life.
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