Like his mother, who never was clever, but yet was every inch a woman--the best woman, in all relations of life, that I ever knew." Helen smiled too--a little sadly, perhaps--but soon her mind recurred from all other things to her one prominent thought.
"And what would you do with the boy himself?
He knows nothing of money -- has never had a pound-note in his pocket all his life." "Then it is high time he should have--and a good many of them.

I shall pay Mrs.Menteith well for his board, but I shall make him a sufficient allowance besides.

He must stand on his own feet, without any one to support him.

It is the only way to make a boy into a man-- a man that is worth anything.

Do you not see that yourself ?" "I see, Lord Cairnforth, that you think it would be best for my boy to be separated from his mother." She spoke in a hurt tone, and yet with a painful consciousness that what she said was not far off the truth, more especially as the earl did not absolutely deny the accusation.
"I think, my dear Helen, that it would be better if he were separated from us all for a time.