I'm an uneducated man myself--any fool can see that--but I did all I could to have them girls different.

They've been to the best school in Medchester, and they've been abroad.

They've had masters in most everything, and I've had 'em taught riding and driving, and all that sort of thing, properly.
Then as they grew up I built this 'ouse, and came up to live here amongst the people whom I reckoned my girls'd be sure to get to know.
And the whole thing's a damned failure, Mary.

That's the long and short of it." "Perhaps--a little later on" Mary began, hesitatingly.
"Don't interrupt me," he said, brusquely.

"This is the first honest talk I've ever had about it, and it's doing me good.