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Winslow. "A child's scorn is
withering, and you don't deserve it."
"I have often wondered what or how much he told Bruce," said Mr. Minturn.
"Could you detect any change in Mr. Bruce after the boy came into his
office?" asked Mrs. Winslow.
"Only that he was kinder and friendlier than ever."
"That probably means that the boy told him and that Mr. Bruce understood
and was sorry."
"No doubt," he said. "You'd talk to the boy then? Now what would you do
about Nellie?"
"What was it Miss Winton thought you _should_ do?"
"See Nellie! Take her back!" he exclaimed. "Give her further opportunity
to exercise her brand of wifehood on me and motherhood on the boys!"
"James, if you do, I'll never forgive you!" cried his sister. "If you tear
up this comfortable, healthful place, where you are the honoured head of
your house, and put your boys back where you found them, I'll go home and
stay there; and you can't blame me."
"Miss Winton didn't ask me to go back," he explained; "that couldn't be
done.


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