15/27 Things are going on about you which you do not suspect. Your son is plotting, plotting; I can see it. This money will be the cause of endless suffering to those you really love, and will never be of as much benefit to the unknown as if practical people dealt with it. Jane is a simple girl, of infinite goodness; what possesses you that you want to make her an impossible sort of social saint ?' Too hard to speak thus frankly. Michael had no longer the mental pliancy of even six months ago; his _idea_ was everything to him; as he became weaker, it would gain the dire force of an hallucination. |