A young soldier would not care to have his mother looking after him, and it is for your good that you should go your own way; and besides, you will have the counsels of Sufder to aid you.

I should be out of place and, for the present, I am happy here with my good brother and sister-in-law, the latter of whom would miss me sorely.
Moreover, Poona is but two days' ride from here, and you will no doubt be able sometimes to come over and see us.
"I have done what little I could for you.

You are now old enough to make your own way.

The bird that has taught its nestling to fly does not try to keep it in the nest, when it is once able to take care of itself." "I can never be sufficiently grateful, for all that you have done for me," Harry said earnestly.

"You have been more than a mother to me and, wherever I go, I shall not be happy unless you are with me, though I see it is best, this time, that I should go alone; but assuredly, when I join my people, and have a home of my own, it would not seem like a home to me if you did not share it." Two days later, Harry mounted a horse that Ramdass had given him, and started with Sufder for Poona.