'William Dallas! why should he not come home? His parents will want to see him. I have some idea they expect him to come over next summer.'
'To stay, papa?'
'To stay the vacation. He will go back again, of course, to keep his terms.'
'At Oxford?'
'Yes; and perhaps afterwards in the Temple.'
'The Temple, papa? what is that?'
'A school of law. Do you not know so much, Esther?'
'Is he going to be a lawyer?'
'His father wishes him to study for some profession, and in that he is as usual judicious. The fact that William will have a great deal of money does not affect the matter at all. It is my belief that every man ought to have a profession. It makes him more of a man.'
'Do you think Pitt will end by being an Englishman, papa?'