4/8 The Doyles are hard-working folks, and very poor. Beth says that Professor De Graf is over head and ears in debt and earns less every year, so he can't be counted upon. In all the Merrick tribe the only tangible thing is my father's life insurance, which I believe you once helped him to pay a premium on." "I'd forgotten that," said Uncle John. We don't want to appear ungenerous in your eyes. But just now we can't offer you a home, and, as mother says, you'd better stay with the Doyles. |