"Well, I'm damned well going to push him out of the nest as soon as I think he can fly.  He can come back later, if he wishes - But I shan't make it possible for him to live out his life here, as an arrested infant.  For one thing, I can't even if I wanted to... because Mike will probably outlive me by sixty or seventy years and this nest will be gone.  But you are correct; Mike is innocent our standards.  Nurse, have you ever seen that sterile laboratory at Notre Dame?"