fashioned ideas � it identity of interests yes but whose interests asked � your wife s man she owns the mills hesitated i would rather talk of my wife s interest in the mills than of her interests there but well keep to the if you prefer it personally i believe the terms should be in the conduct of such a business i m glad to hear that said mr quickly since it s precisely the view we all take s colour rose are he said before you adopt mine perhaps i had better de it a little farther what i mean is that s interests in should be regulated by her interest in it � in its welfare as a social body aside from its success as a commercial enterprise if we agree on this definition we are at one as to the other namely that my relation to the matter is defined by hers the fruit of the tree he paused a moment as if to give bis wife time to contribute some sign of assent and encouragement but she maintained a puzzled silence and he went on there is nothing new in this i have tried to make understand from the beginning what obligations i thought the of and how i hoped to help her them but ever since our marriage all definite discussion of the subject been put off for one cause or another and that is my reason for urging that it should be brought up at the meeting tomorrow there was another pause during which glanced at mr and then said with a lovely rise of colour but john i sometimes think you forget how much been done at � the mothers club and the play ground and all � in the way of carrying out your ideas mr dropped his glance to his cigar and mr sounded an irrepressible note of approval and encouragement smiled no i have not forgotten and i am grateful to you for giving my ideas a trial but what has been done hitherto is purely superficial s eyes clouded and he added hastily don t think i it for that reason � heaven knows the surface of life needs improving but it s like picking flowers and sticking them in the ground to make a the fruit of the tree garden � unless you the flower with its roots and prepare the soil to receive it your garden will be faded tomorrow no radical changes have yet been made at and it is of radical changes that i want to speak s look grew more pained and mr exclaimed with unwonted upon my soul the tone you take about what your wife has done doesn t strike me as the way of encouraging her to do more i don t want to encourage her to do more on such a basis � the sooner she sees the of it the better for the broke out with a flutter of tears in her voice but before her father could mr ar had raised his hand with the gesture of one accustomed to the my dear child i see s point and it is best as he says that you should see it too what he desires as i understand it is the complete of the present state of things at and he is right in saying that all your good works there � night and nursery and so forth � leave that issue untouched a smile quivered under mr l s moustache he and both knew that mr s of the justice of his adversary s claim was merely the first step to it but could the fruit of the tree never be made to understand this and always felt hei self deserted and betrayed when any side but her own was given a hearing i m sorry if all i have tried to do at is useless � but i suppose i never understand ness she murmured vainly seeking consolation in her i father s eye this is not business broke in it s the question of your personal relation to the people there � the last thing that business considers mr uttered an impatient exclamation i wish to heaven the owner of the mills had made it clear just what that relation was to be i think he did sir answered steadily in leaving his wife the control of the property he had under mr s thrust but his voice betrayed do irritation and rewarded him with an unexpected beam of sympathy she was always up in arms at the least of his being treated as an intruder i am sure papa she said a little that poor richard though lie knew i was not clever felt he could trust me to take the best advice ah that s all we ask of you my child her father sighed while mr interposed we are merely time by this let me the fruit op the tree that should give us an idea of the changes he wishes to make at as he turned to answer remembered with what ardent faith in his powers of persuasion he had responded to the same appeal three years earlier he had thought then that all his cause needed was a hearing now he knew that the practical man s readiness to let the talk with the busy parent s permission to destructive infancy to run out and play they would let him state his case to the four comers of the earth � if only he did not expect them to act on it it was their policy to let him in argument and to listen to him so politely and patiently that if he failed to enforce his ideas it should not be for lack of opportunity to them and the alternative struck him as hardly less to be feared supposing that the incredible happened that his reasons prevailed with his 