But the young man insisted, declaring that he had an engagement.

Besides, there would be time enough for settling everything before he came into possession of his inheritance.

So he went away, for he wished to be alone to reflect.
Pierre, on his part, said that he too was going out, and after a few minutes followed his brother.
As soon as he was alone with his wife, father Roland took her in his arms, kissed her a dozen times on each cheek, and, replying to a reproach she had often brought against him, said: "You see, my dearest, that it would have been no good to stay any longer in Paris and work for the children till I dropped, instead of coming here to recruit my health, since fortune drops on us from the skies." She was quite serious.
"It drops from the skies on Jean," she said.

"But Pierre ?" "Pierre?
But he is a doctor; he will make plenty of money; besides, his brother will surely do something for him." "No, he would not take it.

Besides, this legacy is for Jean, only for Jean.