You children talk such nonsense.

Jack ran away of his own free-will, and out of downright contrariness.

He has repented of it only once, I dare say, and that has been ever since he did it, and every time he thought of it.

I wish he was home again, with all my heart, for I can not bear to lose my children.

And Jack was as good a boy as need be, when he got everything his own way.