It was then, for the first time, I sketched to him how we would go into business together; that the firm of "Carnegie Brothers" would be a great one, and that father and mother should yet ride in their carriage.

At the time that seemed to us to embrace everything known as wealth and most of what was worth striving for.
The old Scotch woman, whose daughter married a merchant in London, being asked by her son-in-law to come to London and live near them, promising she should "ride in her carriage," replied: "What good could it do me to ride in a carriage gin I could na be seen by the folk in Strathbogie ?" Father and mother would not only be seen in Pittsburgh, but should visit Dunfermline, their old home, in style.
On Sunday morning with father, mother, and Tom at breakfast, I produced the extra two dollars and a quarter.

The surprise was great and it took some moments for them to grasp the situation, but it soon dawned upon them.

Then father's glance of loving pride and mother's blazing eye soon wet with tears, told their feeling.

It was their boy's first triumph and proof positive that he was worthy of promotion.