"When he is older you will have no objection, I suppose, to his making a visit to his father's people?"
"No objection whatever to a visit, madam."
"How soon should you consider such a move expedient?"
"Ah, that depends," replied the wary gentleman—"depends so much on circumstances."
"What kind of circumstances?" she inquired, stiffly.
His look and tone said unmistakably, "Depends on your behavior, madam." "Depends on the child's health and— Run away and play, Ethan," he said.
As the little boy closed the door: "Then you do admit he is delicate?"
Mrs. Gano spoke more coldly than when Ethan had been there to hear.
"I admit the need to consider the health of all children, and secondary only to that, their education."
"What are your views as to Ethan's schooling?"