Or--if I am satisfied that he has any ability--he can set up some sort of a real-estate office on his own hook.

I could throw a certain amount of business in his way--but it's all in the air, yet.

I'll see him Monday, and we'll have another talk.

By gad! Nina," he added, with a flush of half-shy satisfaction on his ruddy face, "it's--it's almost like having a grown-up son coming bothering me with his affairs; ah--rather agreeable than otherwise.

There's certainly something in that boy.
I--perhaps I have been, at moments, a trifle impatient.