“Was your mother in comfortable circumstances?”
“Oh, yes, sir! My mother was a wealthy woman.”
“And you will swear that that is your name?”
“I will, sir.”
“Pat, you may take him back.”
“You will not close the iron doors behind my child again! He is far more a free man, or should be, than the one sitting there in silence.”
“Well, Pat, why don’t you take him? He is ready.”
“So am I, but when you tell me to do a thing, and then tell me not to, how in the name of common sense do I know what to do?”
“I have given you only one instruction, and that was to go.”