"He isn't close to her, she hasn't room, she has a whole mass meeting in her head.

But I haven't, by George, I like the boy--and I'm the one who will have to tell him to pack up and leave the house! Isn't it the very devil, how things all come back on me ?" "Look here, father," Deborah said, "suppose you let me manage this." And Roger's heavy visage cleared.
"You mean you'll tell him ?" "Yes," she replied, "and he'll understand it perfectly.

I think he has been expecting it.

I have, for a good many weeks," she added, with some bitterness.

"And I know some people who will be glad enough to take him in.
I'll see that he's made comfortable.