He had meant that only the good and beautiful should have place in David's youth.

It was not that he intended that evil, unhappiness, and death should lack definition, only definiteness, in the boy's mind.

It should be a case where the good and the beautiful should so fill the thoughts that there would be no room for anything else.

This had been his plan.

And thus far he had succeeded--succeeded so wonderfully that he began now, in the face of his own illness, and of what he feared would come of it, to doubt the wisdom of that planning.
As he looked at the boy's rapt face, he remembered David's surprised questioning at the first dead squirrel he had found in the woods.