Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London

Colonel Stoddard looked blank.

"Precisely," Dick confirmed. "Drainage, you know. The mines are
flooded--the Mexican situation."

It was during the morning of the second day--the day of Graham's
expected return--that Dick, who, by being on horseback at eleven, had
avoided a repetition of the hurt of the previous day's "Good morning,
merry gentleman" across the distance of his workroom, encountered Ah
Ha in a hall with an armful of fresh-cut lilacs. The house-boy's way
led toward the tower room, but Dick made sure.