'Not one.'
'What do you want me to do with your property?'
'You know well enough. Keep it going the right way.'
'I will always think what you would like.'
'No; do not. Think what is right; and where there is no right or wrong plain in itself, then think what is best. You may see good reason to change some of my plans. You may be wrong; but you must do what you see right—not what I see or might see right.'
'But there is no need to talk so seriously about it,' I said. 'You will manage it yourself for many years yet. Make me your steward, if you like, during your absence: I will not object to that.'
'You do not object to the other, I hope?'
'No.'
'Then so let it be. The other, of course. I have, being a lawyer myself, taken good care not to trust myself only with the arranging of these matters. I think you will find them all right.'
'But supposing you should not return—you have compelled me to make the supposition—'