She boasted of his progress in self-reliance and in the accomplishment of various little blind man's tricks.

At her bidding he lit a cigarette for my benefit, by means of a patent fuse.

He said, when he had succeeded: "Better than the last time you saw me, eh, Meredyth ?" "What was that ?" asked Mrs.Boyce.
"He nearly burned his fingers," said I, shortly.

I had no desire to relate the incident.
We talked of the coming ceremony and I gave them the details of the programme.

Boyce had been right in accepting on the score of his mother.