That, said Mr.Wrybolt, was exactly what he had himself felt.

He was quite sure that in a few days Mrs.Woolstan would see that all was for the best.

The fact of the matter was that Len's tutor, though no doubt a very competent man, had been guilty of indiscretion in unsettling the boy's ideas on certain very important subjects.

Well, admitted the mother, perhaps it was so; she would say no more; Mr.Wrybolt, as a man of the world, probably knew best.

And now--as he was here, she would use the opportunity to speak to him on a subject which had often been in her mind of late.