"You see, Mrs.Bennett, you don't quite understand what you are talking about," he added.

"You have not had the opportunity to understand, of course.

But I agree with you that the Kid's place is at home, and I shall certainly have a talk with him." He moved to the door, laid a fine, well-kept hand upon the knob, and looked at her with a faint smile that had behind it a good deal that puzzled the Little Doctor.

"Don't worry one minute," he said, dropping his punctilious politeness of the minute before, and becoming again the intensely human Luck Lindsay.

"I 'heap sabe.' I've certainly corrupted the morals and ambitions of some of the boys--looking at it the way you do--but I promise to check the devastation right where it's at, and save your only son." He turned then and went out.
The Little Doctor paid him the tribute of hurrying to the window where she could watch him go down the path.