“I wish you would advise me, for I don’t know what to do. I never was in such a situation before.”
“It was understood that your guardian would pay your board for the present, was it not?”
“Yes. He offered to do it. I never would have asked him.”
“You say he left no directions at the office in regard to it?”
“So the chief clerk told me.”
“It is clear, then, that it escaped his mind in the hurry of an unexpected departure. Probably he will set the matter right in his first letter. Wait a minute, though. His wife and son probably accompanied him to the steamer to see him off.”
“I suppose so.”
“Very likely he spoke to them about it. I advise you to call on them and inquire.”
Gilbert looked reluctant.
“It may be as you say,” said he; “but I don’t like to speak to Mrs. Briggs on the subject. She dislikes me, and so I think does Randolph, though not so much as his mother.”