As you observe, that is precisely what I am doing." So the interview terminated.

It was very provoking to Mrs.Preston that her husband should have given away a hundred dollars to Andy Burke's mother, but the thing was done, and could not be undone.
However, she wrote an account of the affair to Godfrey, who, she knew, would sympathize fully with her view of the case.

I give some extracts from her letter: "Your father seems perfectly infatuated with that low Irish boy.

Of course, I allude to Andy Burke.

He has gone so far as to give him a hundred dollars.