'I can't tell, my dear. That would depend on circumstances, probably. I should think it very likely, and very natural.'
'But he is an American.'
'Half.'
The colonel took up his book again.
'Papa,' said Esther eagerly, 'do you think Pitt will come to see us here?'
'Come to see us? If anything brings him to New York, I have no doubt he will look us up.'
'You do not think he would come all the way on purpose? Papa, he would be very much changed if he did not.'
'Impossible to say, my dear. He is very likely to have changed.' And the colonel went back to his reading.
'Papa does not care about it,' thought Esther. 'Oh, can Pitt be so much changed as that?'