Shadrach, however, answered promptly and diplomatically.
"Haven't I told you," he said, "that Zoeth and me are your guardians?
And didn't I say we'd gone into the thing careful and deliberate?
And didn't I pay your first year's schoolin' yesterday?
Don't that alone show what we think about the money.

Be still, Zoeth; that's enough.
Well, Mary-'Gusta ?" Mary-'Gusta considered a moment longer.

Then she rose and, crossing the room, gave them each a kiss.
"I'll go," she said, simply.

"I'll go because I think you mean it and that it will please you.

For that reason and no other I'll go.".