"I have heard of little else, I can assure you.
Well, he is a lucky fellow; it is not every one who gets the desire of his heart." "Then you approve of it ?" questioned Dinah; but her tone was so dubious that he looked at her with unfeigned astonishment.
"My dear Miss Templeton, how could I do otherwise?
It will be valuable training for Cedric; the discipline and self-denial that it entails will be the making of him.

Of course his head is rather turned at present, and he is crowing like a bantam cock who wants to challenge the world, but he will soon be all right." "You and Elizabeth think alike, then," replied Dinah; "she only laughs at me and calls me old-fashioned.

I suppose I am not up-to-date," with a touching little smile; "it seems to me such waste of time and energy.
And then there is the Civil Service Examination." "Oh, we need not trouble our heads about that for another eighteen months." "You think not ?" still more anxiously.

"Both Mr.Charrington and Mr.
Carlyon tell me that it is a terribly hard examination." "Well, it is pretty stiff, of course, and Cedric will have to work hard.

You must give him his head for the present, Miss Templeton," he continued.