"Men do go," urged Roger, as if it were a mere half-indifferent suggestion.
"Oh, yes! you would have plenty to keep you in countenance!" I returned,—"men enough—and worth teaching, too—some of them at least!"
"Then, I don't see why she should object to me for another."
"I don't know that she would. You are not exactly of the sort, you know—that"—
"I don't see the difference. I see no essential difference, at least. The main thing is, that I am in want of teaching, as much as any of them. And, if she stands on circumstances, I am a working-man as much as any of them—perhaps more than most of them. Few of them work after midnight, I should think, as I do, not unfrequently."
"Still, all admitted, I should hardly like"—
"I didn't mean you were to take me without asking her," he said: "I should never have dreamed of that."
"And if I were to ask her, I am certain she would refuse. But," I added, thinking over the matter a little, "I will take you without asking her. Come with me to-morrow night. I don't think she will have the heart to send you away."
"I will," he answered, with more gladness in his voice than he intended, I think, to manifest itself.
We arranged that he should call for me at a certain hour.