There's no hurry, and--" "But I must answer this--this telegram," he growled.

"What am I to say to the feller ?" "Tell him to follow his discretion, and that you have complete confidence--" "But--" "Yes; I know you haven't, really.

But it'll do no harm, and it'll make him feel important." "And what if the boy does take to the roads ?" "Let him," said Jenny coolly.

"It won't kill him." He looked up at her again in silence.
Jenny herself was very far from comfortable, though she was conscious of real pleasure, too, in the situation.

She had seen this old man in a passion pretty often, but she had never seen him in a passion with any real excuse.