“I think Roger will urge you to please your father.”
“Father was glad enough for Roger to study.”
“That was because of the choice of study.”
“I knew that. But my choice is no mean one.”
“I think a natural bent should be respected,” reasoned Judith.
“I don’t know that I have a natural bent. A great English physician writes that he decided to study medicine when he was a boy because his father’s physician came to the house with a coat trimmed with gold lace. He was after the gold lace.”
“What are you after?”
“Money, reputation—position—”
“I don’t believe it,” she answered, earnestly.
“Oh, I would like them thrown in,” he laughed.