“And it is time I should ask after your noble-hearted boy. How is he, and where?”
“He is here, at my hotel, impatiently waiting your permission to go down to 'The Home.' He has a question to ask there, whose answer will be his destiny.”
“Has Josephine turned another head then?” said Barring-ton, laughing.
“She has won a very honest heart; as true and as honorable a nature as ever lived,” said Conyers, with emotion. “Your granddaughter does not know, nor needs ever to know, the wrong I have done her father; and if you have forgiven me, you will not remember it against my boy.”
“But what do you yourself say to all this? You have never seen the girl?”
“Fred has.”
“You know nothing about her tastes, her temper, her bringing up.”
“Fred does.”
“Nor are you aware that the claim we have so long relied on is almost certain to be disallowed. I have scarcely a hope now remaining with regard to it.”
“I have more than I need; and if Fred will let me have a bungalow in his garden, I'll make it all over to him tomorrow.”