People can't all think alike, you know.

Now, if you please, I'll go.' Roger felt that he hadn't half said what he had to say, but he hardly knew how to get it said.

And of what use could it be to talk to a young man who was altogether callous and without feeling?
The remedy for the evil ought to be found in the mother's conduct rather than the son's.
She, were she not foolishly weak, would make up her mind to divide herself utterly from her son, at any rate for a while, and to leave him to suffer utter penury.

That would bring him round.

And then when the agony of want had tamed him, he would be content to take bread and meat from her hand and would be humble.