“The boy needn’t think I am going to make a fuss about him. It would be making him of altogether too much importance. I think I can afford to wait quite as well as he can.”
“Did you see Mr. Victor?” inquired the housekeeper when he returned home.
“No, Mrs. Bancroft.”
“I thought you went to Ilium, sir.”
“So I did.”
“And did not call on Mr. Victor?”
“Victor isn’t at Ilium. He has gone away on a little journey with a school companion.”
Mrs. Bancroft looked surprised.
“Will he be gone long?” she ventured to inquire.