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`` All right , then . Until six o'clock ? '' `` Yes . '' `` Very well , six o'clock , '' the man agreed , and withdrew . `` I ca n't bear to think of your going to your father again , Mary , '' sighed the rector , bitterly . `` Dick has been a shocking muddler in his affairs -- as bad as his father , without his father 's excuse . God knows , I 've been too busy with parish affairs to attend properly to my own , whereas he -- '' `` He is young , John , '' pleaded the indulgent mother , `` and ought to be in receipt of a handsome allowance from his grandfather .