"There's no mistaking that. Are you glad that you're his son?"
"No, sir," said Peewee.
"You mean because he wasn't married to your mother?"
"No, sir." The fact that his birth was not conventional was not a conscious burden to Peewee. He was accustomed to thinking of himself as not like others.
"What then? You'd be glad if he had been married to her, wouldn't you?"
"No, sir."
"Why not?"
Peewee could not answer that. He had an indefinite feeling that it would be an additional misfortune to everybody, including himself, if his father had been married to his mother.
"Who told you that he wasn't married to her?" Beman inquired.
"He did."
"He'd have said that anyway, wouldn't he?"
Did Beman mean that they had been married? Peewee was commencing to believe that the old man did mean that. He perceived
