He asks for his child, and if he may see her.

He has just finished a concert tour of America, and is at present in New York.
"Personally, I shall never forgive him, but have I the right to keep Eleanor from her father?
He is both rich and famous, and she would adore him, for his music, if for nothing else.

I have always said that when she became twenty-one years of age I should tell her of him, leaving to her the choice of claiming or ignoring him.
"But I never supposed for one instant that he would ever come forward and interest himself in her.

A year ago I should not have considered her fit to choose, but she is greatly changed.

The two years in which she has associated with girls of her own age have benefited her greatly.