Chapter 13

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​​‌​​‌‌‌​‌​​‌‌​​‌​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​​​​​​⁠It was always an occasion of significance when Mr. and Mrs. Basil Sequin found time in their busy lives to discuss a family matter. There was no particular lack of interest on either side, it was simply that their hours did not happen to fit. When he was not at his club, she was at hers; when she was dining at home, he was detained at a directors' meeting; when he went North to a Bankers' Conventi