"It's well you know, my son, I never try to persuade no one to do anything. I just let them find things out for themselves. It's the best way in the end."
"As long as you act up to that, you can do what you like," John said. "You may as well know, though, for good and all, that we're going back to London. I've a new book coming out soon!..."
"I wonder will you make as much out of it as you made out of your other book," Mrs. MacDermott said.
IV
There was a letter for John in the morning. His subtenant wrote to say that he liked the flat and found it so convenient that he was very anxious to know whether there was a chance of John giving up possession of it. He was willing to buy the furniture at a fair valuation!...
"Damned cheek," said John. He told the others of the contents of the letter.
"If we were to stay here," Eleanor said, "that offer would be very useful, wouldn't it?"
"It's of no use to us," he answered. "We're not going to stay here!"
In the afternoon, a telegram came from Clotworthy instructing John to return to London immediately. "Will you come with me or come later by yourself?" John said to Eleanor.
She hesitated for a few moments, then going quickly to him and putting her arms about his neck, she whispered, "I don't want to go back to London, John. I want to stay here!"