I pray God it may be soon.

Of course he is spoilt; but I am to blame, because I made him my idol." "An only son is always more or less spoilt," said John.

He remembered his own boyhood, and smiled sardonically in the darkness.

"He will grow out of it.

He will come back a man after this experience." "Yes, yes, and he will want to live his life, and I--I shall have to learn to do without him, I know," she said.