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Minturn. "Why
Leslie, if I were to hunt her up and ask her to come to my house, do you
think she would do it?"
"I know she would be most happy," said Leslie.
"Small plain rooms, wait on herself, children over the house and lawn at
all times--Nellie Minturn? You amuse me!" he said.
"There's no amusement in it for me, it is pitiful tragedy," said Leslie.
"She is willing, she has offered to change, you are denying her the
opportunity."
"You don't think deeply enough!" said the man. "Suppose, knowing her as I
do, I agreed to her coming to my house. Suppose I filled it with servants
to wait on her, and ruin and make snobs of the boys; it could only result
in a fiasco all around, and bring me again to the awful thing I have been
through once, in forcing a separation. The present is too good for the
boys, and now they are my first consideration."
"So I see," said Leslie. "Nellie isn't getting a particle and she _is_
their mother, and once she really awakened to the situation, she was
hungry to mother them, and to take her place in their hearts.


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