But I'm sure he's a GOOD boy." She reverted to the subject a little later, while she washed the dishes and Alice wiped them.

"Of course Walter could take his place with the other nice boys of the town even yet," she said.

"I mean, if we could afford to help him financially.

They all belong to the country clubs and have cars and----" "Let's don't go into that any more, mama," the daughter begged her.
"What's the use ?" "It COULD be of use," Mrs.Adams insisted.

"It could if your father----" "But papa CAN'T." "Yes, he can." "But how can he?
He told me a man of his age CAN'T give up a business he's been in practically all his life, and just go groping about for something that might never turn up at all.