"The same as brought up--the quicker he broke his word the better; and I want you should act upon that idea. Recollect that it's my business, and your mother's business, as well as yours, and we're going to have our say. He hain't done anything wrong, Pen, nor anything that he's going to be punished for. Understand that. He's got to have a reason, if you're not going to have him. I don't say you've got to have him; I want you should feel perfectly free about that; but I DO say you've got to give him a reason."
"Is he coming here?"
"I don't know as you'd call it COMING----"
"Yes, you do, father!" said the girl, in forlorn amusement at his shuffling.
"He's coming here to see ME----"
"When's he coming?"
"I don't know but he's coming to-night."
"And you want I should see him?"
"I don't know but you'd better."
"All right. I'll see him."