In fact, I rather resented her calm certainty.
"Mother," said I, "you speak as if the offer had been five cents instead of five thousand dollars." "What difference does it make, Boy ?" she asked.

"If it had been only a matter of price you would have sold for six hundred and fifty.

That is a good deal more than the land is worth, isn't it." "I suppose so.

But five thousand is a small fortune to us.

I am not sure that we have the right to refuse it." "Roscoe, if you were alone in this matter--if I were not here to be considered at all--would you have sold the land, no matter what he offered ?" "I don't know, Mother.