And yet I deliberately planned to make him do that kind of thing for me.

I pulled him out of the newspaper office and made it possible for him to study law, just that I might put my hand on him when he could be useful.

Please understand that I'm not saying this in the hope that you will intercede to bring him back.
Nothing can bring him back.

I wouldn't let him come back to me if he would starve without my help." Sylvia was silent; there was nothing with which she could meet this.
"What I mean is," he continued, "that I'm glad he shook me; I had wondered from the beginning just when it would come, and when I saw his things going out of my office, it satisfied something in me.

I wonder whether there's some good in me after all that made me glad in spite of myself that he had the manhood to quit." Bassett was a complex character; his talk and manner at Marian's ball had given her a sense of this which he was now confirming.