Chapter 21
"The child must have a name, Jasper." "All right, you give it one. That's nothun to me." "But he must be christened properly." "Why must he?" "Oh, Jasper, if you don't fare to believe, his mother did, poor thing!" "And a lot of good that did her . . . but do you have your way. Make a canting little Christian of him if you like. Do you think I care what you do with the brat? I know what I'd do with it, if that wasn't for the law!" So, in the early days, while Robert Carlton was still learning to live alone, his son was trundled across the heath to Linkworth, and there christened George after no one in particular. Followed the remaining period of extreme infancy, during which Jasper Musk seldom set eyes upon the child, and was more or less oblivious to its concrete existence. Then one
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