“I've thought it all over. I'll be a lot happier in France. I can get much more of what I want there.”
“Aren't you happy here?”
“Everybody's been kind to me, and I'm glad I came. I had to know your people, and I wouldn't have missed the experience. But I have to see my mother, too. And she needs me right now. I don't think she's ever going to see Marcel again.”
“You could visit her, you know.”
“Of course; but I have to think of one place as home, and that's Juan.”
“What about the business?”
“If I'm going to help you, it'll be over there. You'll be going back and forth, and I'll see as much of you one way as the other.”
“You don't care about going to college?”
“I don't think so, Robbie. I've asked people about it and it isn't what I need. I was going through with it on account of the war, and to please you.”
“Just what is it you want — if you know?”