“What are you grumbling about now?” demanded ’Williams.  “Don’t I give you more money than—­”

“Nonsense!” sneered Mrs. Williams, in scornful derision.  “Nonsense, I say!  Money is all there is to you, Ogden.  In other things, the real things of this world, those you can’t buy with money, you’re a perfect imbecile.  You know nothing whatever about them.”

Captain Sol, alone on the walk by the hedge, glanced in the direction of the shrill voice, then back at the lamp in Olive’s window.  And he laughed aloud.