“Is it you, my little friend? How is your mother?”

“Why haven’t you been to see us?” asked Boo.

He smiled.

“I am remiss in those matters. I need education.”

“I’ll tell you what to do,” said Boo. “I know what people ought to do. Come and see mammy now.”

“Not now, my dear. I have other engagements.”

Boo’s brows knit together.

“People break engagements when I tell them,” she said with hauteur.

“Mine are business engagements.”

“Come!” she said with a stamp of one small foot.