8: Madeleine Amber
FOR a minute or two Amber disregarded his daughter's injunction and sat silent, while the girl, seating herself on the arm of his chair, smiled in a friendly way at Gees. She had just as fine features as her mother, and a wild- rose complexion slightly tanned by sun and wind; there was about her an utter un-self-consciousness that added to her attractiveness, and Gees, remembering what Tyrrell had implied concerning her, felt that the man was a fool. This child of the open with her very obvious sense of humor was worth ten of an exotic being like Gyda McCoul: the contrast between them, was, to use Gees' own simile, that between high C and B natural. If, eventually, Tyrrell did marry Gyda, as seemed to be his intent, he would be compelled to live in an intensity that mig
