Mr. Paragon watched her as she read.
"Yes," he said, answering her thoughts, "Peter's all right."
Mrs. Paragon handed back the letter.
"I suppose," suggested Mr. Paragon, airily magnificent, "he had better go on with his education?"
"Of course," said Mrs. Paragon.
Mr. Paragon knew at once that if he had persisted in taking Peter from school he would have had to persuade his wife that it was right to do so. He also knew that this would have been very difficult.
Fortunately, however, he had decided otherwise. He could flatter himself now that he had settled this grave question himself. It was true, in a sense, that he had. Mr. Paragon had not for nothing lived with his wife for nearly seventeen years.