’I don’t know any young man who ever did worse or one who had less moral conception of what is right and wrong.’

’Very well.  That’s your idea.  I differ from you.  People can’t all think alike, you know.  Now, if you please, I’ll go.’

Roger felt that he hadn’t half said what he had to say, but he hardly knew how to get it said.  And of what use could it be to talk to a young man who was altogether callous and without feeling?  The remedy for the evil ought to be found in the mother’s conduct rather than the son’s.  She, were she not foolishly weak, would make up her mind to divide herself utterly from her son, at any...