4/17 The doctor says so and Miss Perry says so; and if we don't get him into the right frame of mind now we never will. The first day he's outdoors he'll go back to that old hole--you'll see! And if he once does that, he'll settle down there and it'll be too late and we'll never get him out." "Well, anyhow, I think you could use a little more tact with him." "I do try to," the mother sighed. "It never was much use with him. I don't think you understand him as well as I do, Alice." "There's one thing I don't understand about either of you," Alice returned, crisply. "Before people get married they can do anything they want to with each other. |