And, you will have yourself to thank for prejudicing him against Burnamy." "Then why didn't you do it yourself, my dear ?" he teased; but he was really too sorry for the whole affair, which he nevertheless enjoyed as an ethical problem.
The general looked so little at the papers that before March went off for his morning walk he saw him come out of the reading-room and take his way down the Alte Wiese.

He went directly back to his daughter, and reported Burnamy's behavior with entire exactness.

He dwelt upon his making the best of a bad business in refusing to help Stoller out of it, dishonorably and mendaciously; but he did not conceal that it was a bad business.
"Now, you know all about it," he said at the end, "and I leave the whole thing to you.

If you prefer, you can see Mrs.March.I don't know but I'd rather you'd satisfy yourself--" "I will not see Mrs.March.Do you think I would go back of you in that way?
I am satisfied now." XXXIX.
Instead of Burnamy, Mrs.Adding and her son now breakfasted with the Marches at the Posthof, and the boy was with March throughout the day a good deal.

He rectified his impressions of life in Carlsbad by March's greater wisdom and experience, and did his best to anticipate his opinions and conform to his conclusions.