"But Dad has to be there. So many of our best and bravest men are
wanted in India. Some day perhaps you will be there too; only you have
first to learn lots of things—things that can only be taught properly
in England. And—yes, in Scotland too. England and Scotland are one. And
you have to be a man now, my darling—because it is right for me to go,
and for you to stay behind."
Jock murmured—"I'll—try." Then he ran out of the room; and his mother
knew him too well to follow.