He ought.

Remember his life is likely to be a very different one from either yours or mine." "Do not let us think of that," said Helen, uneasily.
"My friend, I have been thinking of it ever since he was born--or, at least, ever since he came to Cairnforth.

That day seems almost like yesterday, and yet--We are growing quite middle-aged folk, Helen, my dear." Helen sighed.

These peaceful, uneventful years, how fast they had slipped by! She began to count them after the only fashion by which she cared to count any thing now.

"Yes, Cardross will be a man--actually and legally a man--in little more than two years." "That is just what I was considering.