But that is not all, Mrs.Shand.' 'What else?
You can tell me.

Of course I know what it is that he has come to.

I don't blind myself to it, Mr.Caldigate, even though I am his mother.

But I am his mother; and if I could comfort him, just a little----' 'Clothes are not what he wants;--of clothes he can get what is necessary, poor as he is.' 'What is it he wants most ?' 'Somebody to speak to;--some one to be kind to him.' 'My poor boy!' 'As he has fallen to what he is now, so can he rise again if he can find courage to give his mind to it.

I think that if you write to him and tell him so, that will be better than sending him shirts.