“Not in your ears, mother,” laughed her husband. “Ask Walter what he thinks about it. He ought to know.”
“What I want to know is whether or not you are going to help Dan.”
“I cannot say as yet.”
“Why not?”
“I must see more of him first. It would be no real kindness to Dan to take him away from the farm, where I fancy he is doing fairly well, and put him into some other work in which he might fail.”
“But I thought you believed in education,” protested Mrs. Borden.
“I do,” said her husband simply.
“Then I don’t see——” began Mrs. Borden.
“Education and school and college are not always the same thing.”