Yet no life is without cares and contentions, and Robert Worth had had to face circumstances several times, which had brought the real man to the front.
The education of his children had been such a crisis.

He had two sons and two daughters, and for them he anticipated a wider and grander career than he had chosen for himself.

When his eldest child, Thomas, had reached the age of fourteen, he determined to send him to New York.
He spoke to Dona Maria of this intention.

He described Columbia to her with all the affectionate pride of a student for his alma mater.

The boy's grandmother also still lived in the home wherein, he himself had grown to manhood.