"Well, we won't talk further of him now; what I propose is that you should take up your abode at the Hall.

I am not satisfied with the school where Mark has been for the last two years, and I have been hesitating whether to get a private tutor for him or to send him to one of the public schools.

I know that that would be best, but I could not bring myself to do so.

I have some troubles of my own that but two or three people know of, and now, that everything is going on smoothly on the estate and in the village, I often feel dull, and the boy's companionship does me much good; and as he knows many lads of his own age in the neighborhood now, I think that he would do just as well at home.
"He will be taking to shooting and hunting before long, and if he is to have a tutor, there is no one I should like to have better than yourself.

You know all the people, and we could talk comfortably together of an evening when the house is quiet.