I know that his system was almost impossible; I had to live and see my children driven into themselves until they were becoming too self-centred to care for anything else--to realise that there was anything else or anybody else except their wishes and themselves to consider....

But, Duane, you see the right quality was latent in them.

They are coming out--they have emerged splendidly.

It has altered their lives fundamentally, of course, but, sometimes, I wonder whether, in their particular cases, it was not better to cripple the easy, irresponsible, and delightfully casual social instincts of the House of Seagrave.

Educated according to my own ideas, they must inevitably have become, in a measure, types of the set with which they are identified....