"Why mustn't I, guvner?"
"Why mustn't you what?"
"Talk like that of him?" pointing to Reginald.
"Because it's not civil. Mr. Trevor is my friend, and I am very fond of him."
"Must I like everythink as you like?"
"Yes, of course," said Lawrence, rather amused.
"Then I will, guvner—but it's a rum start."
He lay still after that, while the two men talked, but Reginald noted how the boy's eyes were scarcely ever moved from Lawrence's face. As he took leave of his cousin in the hall, he said—
"You will do more for him just now than I could, Lawrence; you will have to take him in hand."
"But I haven't the faintest notion what to do, Reg. I shall have to come to you and get my lesson up. What am I to begin with?"