"Indeed he is—I knew him before you did."
"Did you, sir—where?"
"In Toronto—when he went there as a young man to study Canadian law."
"So he's coming here," said the boy musingly. "Will John and Margie come, too?"
"I dare say."
"I don't think he could get on without them. He likes Margie's cooking and John looks after his clothes."
"Well, I hope you'll see them all before autumn—— Now tell me how you used to amuse yourself in that big dreary town house of yours."
"Of course I had my studies, sir."
"Did you find them interesting?"
"Some of them. I had a fine young tutor all these years—a girl tutor."