"Just the same," said Ben. "His capacity for bearing other people's calamities with fortitude, as somebody said, develops every day."
"And the step?" he asked.
"Oh, she's all right," said Ben; "you'll like her."
"Rolls, too, doesn't she?" Guy inquired.
"Rolls," said Ben.
"Does she let the governor touch it?" asked Guy.
"How little you seem to know of your own father!" said Ben. "And I thought of you as a wise child."
"I may have been once," said Guy, "but that's all over. Oh, the mess I've been getting into!"
"What kind of a mess?" Ben asked anxiously.