Drives it, too, when I'll let him, which isn't very often.
Chauffeurs are such rotters, aren't they?
Regular chauffeurs I mean.

They always make out that something is wrong with the car, just as dentists always find some hole in your teeth, if you go to them." Mr.Taynton did not reply to these critical generalities but went back to what he had been saying when the entry of coffee interrupted him.
"As your mother said," he remarked, "I wanted to have a few words with you.

You are twenty-two, are you not, to-day?
Well, when I was young we considered anyone of twenty-two a boy still, but now I think young fellows grow up more quickly, and at twenty-two, you are a man nowadays, and I think it is time for you, since my trusteeship for you may end any day now, to take a rather more active interest in the state of your finances than you have hitherto done.

I want you in fact, my dear fellow, to listen to me for five minutes while I state your position to you." Morris indicated the port again, and Mr.Taynton refilled his glass.
"I have had twenty years of stewardship for you," he went on, "and before my stewardship comes to an end, which it will do anyhow in three years from now, and may come to an end any day--" "Why, how is that ?" asked Morris.
"If you marry, my dear boy.

By the terms of your father's will, your marriage, provided it takes place with your mother's consent, and after your twenty-second birthday, puts you in complete control and possession of your fortune.