You can get a start again.

It is too bad about these children of yours.

I will take care of the boy as soon as he is old enough.

As for Berenice"-- he used her name softly--"if she can stay in her school until she is nineteen or twenty the chances are that she will make social connections which will save her nicely.

The thing for you to do is to avoid meeting any of this old crowd out here in the future if you can.