We shall not wish to fare so much better than you." "Do you think with your mother, Frank ?" asked Mr.Frost.
"I think mother is right," said Frank, proud of having his opinion asked.

He was secretly determined, in spite of what his father had said, to see if he could not make the farm as profitable as it would be under his father's management.
Mr.Frost seemed relieved by his wife's expression of opinion.

"Then," said he, "I will accept your decision as final.

I felt that it should be you, and not myself, who should decide it.

Now my mind will be at ease, so far as that goes." "You will not enlist at once, father ?" asked Frank.
"Not for three or four weeks.