As to Dan, we will think about it.

When his father was about his age he used to lead my pony when I first took to riding, and when there is a vacancy Dan must come into the stable.

I could not think of sending him out as a field hand; in the first place for his father's sake, but still more for that of Vincent.

Dan used to be told off to see that Vincent did not get into mischief when he was a little boy, and he has run his messages and been his special boy since he came back.

Vincent wanted to have him as his regular house servant; but it would have broken old Sam's heart if, after being my father's boy and my husband's, another had taken his place as Vincent's." And so Dan had remained in the stable, but regarding Vincent as his special master, carrying messages for him to his friends, or doing any odd jobs he might require, and spending no small portion of his time in sleep.