“She could do it. She’d like that sort of thing.”
“Is Mrs. Wells out of her mind completely?”
“No. But she’s losing her grip more than you’d believe. You should see her. Her very face has changed. We don’t want her——”
“We don’t—who’s ‘we’?”
“Jerry and I—we both feel that the whole thing will be safer if Jerry has legal rights. Of course, if the boy were fit, there would not be the slightest objection to turning over the management to him.”
“There wouldn’t?”
“No.”
“You wouldn’t object to that?”
“Not a particle—if he were capable.”
Again Phœbe scrutinized the man before her.