Yes; it is not so much a favour as the indication of your duty.

I do not know if you will see it in the same light as I; you have shown me before now that we do not take the same view." Michael felt himself bristling.

His father certainly had the effect of drawing out in him all the feelings that were better suppressed.
"I think we need not talk of that now, sir," he remarked.
"Certainly it is not the subject of my interview with you now.

The fact is this.

In some way your presence gives a certain serenity and content to your mother.