But have you any reason to suppose that he will not receive her?
Did he refuse at first to undertake the charge of the child?
Does he even know that she is alive?
It may be that, all these years, he has been anxious to have her with him, and that you have been doing him injustice altogether." "I never thought of it in that light," the sergeant said, after a pause.

"He never came near his son when he lay dying, never wrote a line in answer to his letters.

If a man could not forgive his son when he lay dying, how could he care for a grandchild he had never seen ?" "That may be so, Sergeant Wilks; but his son's death certainly broke him down terribly, and it may be that he will gladly receive his granddaughter.
"But there are the young ones back again.

I will think over what you have been telling me, and we can discuss it again tomorrow.".