He remembered that Chaffery was a slippery scoundrel whose blame was better than his praise, immediately afterwards.

Mr. Chaffery is a man of indisputable powersindisputable powers; but I am afraidI am very much afraid he has abused the conditions of the experiment.

Mrs. Chaffery was perpetually flittingout of the house as Lewisham came home, a dim, black, nervous, untidy little figure.

He declined upon the extraordinary fact that Chaffery was his father-in-law, Mrs. Chaffery his mother-in-law, that these two and Ethel constituted his family, his clan, and that grimy graceless house up the Clapham hillside was to be his home.

Surely she had known that Chaffery was a cheat.