If the little fellow would only be happy separated from his father; that was the question! "Are there children in the house ?" she asked.

Mirko was peculiar, and did not like other little boys.
"The doctor has an only little girl of about your brother's age.

He is nine and a half, is it not so?
And she is delicate, too, so they could play together." This sounded more promising.
"I would wish to go down and see the doctor first--and the home," she said.
"You shall do so, of course, when you like.

I will set aside a certain sum every year, to be invested for him, so that when he grows up he will have a competence--even a small fortune.

I will have a deed drawn out for you to sign; it shall be all _en regle_." "That is well," she said.