"Is that what you have been thinking all day?
I told you before I left yesterday that I would not need do that.

And I won't! We can't afford to quarrel over Elnora.

She's all we've got.

Now that she has proved that if you don't do just what I think you ought by way of clothes and schooling, she can take care of herself, I put that out of my head.

What I came to see you about is a kind of scare I've had to-day.