Watson, with resolute heart but hanging head, waiting
for her on the back step. What passed between them neither
of them ever told, but in a very few minutes Robert Roblin
ran gaily homeward, happy in heart, shriven of his sin,
and with one little spot on his cheek which tingled with
rapture. Better still, he went, like a man, and made his
peace with Mrs. McGuire!



CHAPTER VI
THE MUSICAL SENSE

Mrs. Francis, in the sweetest of tea gowns, was intent
upon Dr. Ernestus Parker's book on "Purposeful Motherhood."
It was the chapter dealing with the "Musical Sense in
Children" which engrossed Mrs. Francis's attention. She
had just begun subdivision C in the chapter, "When and
How the Musical Sense Is Developed," when she thought of
Danny. She fished into the waste-paper basket for her
little red note-book, and with her silver mounted pencil
she made the following entry:

DANIEL WATSON,
AGED 4.
MUS. SENSE. DEVELOPED. IF SO, WHEN. IF NOT,
HOW, AND AT ONCE.

She read on feverishly. She felt herself to be in the
throes of a great idea.