He followed willingly, glad to see her again after so many years apart. He took a seat in her office and settled back, smiling.
"It's wonderful to see you too, Mother," he said. "I've only been in this country since the 1820's or so, I followed the gold rush and the pioneers and the industrialists. I got my sight back, it was that play of Aristophanes' that did it. Didn't seem to matter that it never happened, one day I woke up and I could see. But I came here to see if I could work in the diamond district, to see how it's grown and flourished. I found a job, and I'm going to go to school at Columbia. And you? How have you been since we last saw each other?"