My husband has offered a hundred times to have him put into a home, but the other brother--Green, the schoolmaster--is absolutely pig-headed on the subject, and won't hear of it." "Poor Robin!" said Juliet gently.

"Yes, I know him.

He is certainly not normal, but scarcely half-witted, do you think ?" Mrs.Fielding turned her head to bestow upon her a brief glance of surprise.

"I said half-witted," she observed haughtily.
Juliet turned her head also, and gave her companion a straight and level look.

"And I did not agree with you," she said quietly.
Mrs.Fielding uttered a laugh that had a girlish ring despite its insolence.