Silas Bradford's Boy by Joseph C. Lincoln

At supper that evening Banks told his mother of his meeting with Elizabeth Cartwright in the Tadgett shop. Also he told of Mrs. Truman's visit to that shop and her conversation as repeated by Ebenezer. Her apparent interest in him--Banks Bradford--and Tadgett's guess that she might be considering him as a successor to Brooks as her legal adviser he treated as a joke.

Margaret was inclined to agree with him there. "I imagine she will want some one a little older and more experienced than you for that," she said.