"Are you tired?" he asked.
"Not very."
"Then I think we'd better settle this matter at once. Since you've chosen to come here and to pass your father's gate, we'll discuss it here and for the last time. Why did you leave school?"
"I couldn't see any use in it."
"Do you expect to be a physician without going to school?"
"I don't want to be a physician. I have no interest in it. I want to farm." Matthew burst into tears.
Levis met tears without a change of expression.
"Suppose you do want to farm, there's no reason why you shouldn't go to school. There are new methods of farming which you could learn. You could at least learn how to live. Do you want to remain an ignoramus?"
"I'm not an ignoramus. And I don't want to take your money."
Levis made no answer.