So when I saw that it comforted her a bit to have someone to cook for, I encouraged the fellow.

I told him he'd nothing to look for from me, for his father is richer than I am nowadays; but he's just the sort to like vagary." Jim went home, and Caius began a simple round of home duties.

His father needed much attendance; the farm servants needed direction.

Caius soon found out, without being told, that neither in one capacity nor the other did he fulfil the old man's pleasure nearly so well as the rough-and-ready Jim.

Even his mother hardly let a day pass without innocently alluding to some prank of Jim's that had amused her.