“’My DEAR FATHER,—I should be happy in Paris, very happy, if it were not for the knowledge of the grief that my flight must have occasioned you. Of course I have acted very wrongly, very wickedly—’”
“But,” said Evelyn, “you told me I was acting rightly, that to do otherwise would be madness.”
“Yes, and I only told you the truth. But in writing to your father you must adopt the conventional tone. There’s no use in trying to persuade your father you did right.... I don’t know, though. Scratch out ‘I have acted wrongly and very wickedly,’ and write—
“’I will not ask you to think that I have acted otherwise than wrongly, for, of course, as a father you can hold no other opinion, but being also a clever man, an artist, you will perhaps be inclined to admit that my wrong-doing is not so irrep
