I can get Jud Jason to drive the cream
wagon for me, and I'll do the best I can at the barn. I had hoped that
we'd be partners and work together all our days; but if you have decided
upon leaving us, of course you won't be satisfied till you've done it."
"Well I can try," said Junior, "and if I don't like it I can come back."
"I don't know about that," objected Peter. "Of course I'd have other help
hired; your room would be occupied and your work contracted for----"
"Well I hadn't figured on that," he said. "I supposed I could go and try
it, and if I didn't like it I could come home. Couldn't I come home Ma?"
Nancy slowly became a greenish white colour; but the situation had been
discussed so often, it worried her dreadfully; now that it had to be met,
evasion would do no good. Peter grimly watched her. He knew she was
struggling with a woman's inborn impulse to be the haven of her children,
her son, her first-born, especially. He was surprised to hear her saying:
"Why I hardly think so Junior, it wouldn't be a right start in life.
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