"But he has all your money, you know—your fortune is now his."
"Well, sir!"
"And what do you mean to do?"
"I will do what you bid me—except going back to him."
The old man sat silent for awhile, and then again he spoke.
"Well, I don't suppose you know your own mind, as yet."
"Oh, sir! indeed I do."
"I say I suppose you don't. Don't interrupt me—I have suggested this: that you should remain here six months, and that then he should come again and see—"
"You, sir."
"Well—see me, if I'm alive: at the end of that time you'll have to go back to him. Now, good-night."