He will only have his mother to keep in future, and I've a notion that there's a kindness between him and that nice modest girl, Mary Burge, from something that fell from old Jonathan one day when I was talking to him.

But when I mentioned the subject to Adam he looked uneasy and turned the conversation.

I suppose the love-making doesn't run smooth, or perhaps Adam hangs back till he's in a better position.

He has independence of spirit enough for two men--rather an excess of pride, if anything." "That would be a capital match for Adam.

He would slip into old Burge's shoes and make a fine thing of that building business, I'll answer for him.