And even then it is not
advisable. All their customs and habits of thought are different. No!
Emphatically, no! And the girl, if she is sensible and well reared, as I
have said, will understand it is impossible."
"My soul and body! Then you mean to tell me that she MUST look out for
some chap in her crowd? If she ain't got but just enough to keep inside
the circle--this grand whirlamagig you're tellin' me about--if she's
pretendin' up to the limit of her income or over, then it's her duty,
and her ma and pa's duty, to set her cap for a man who's nigher the
center pole in the tent and go right after him? Do you tell me that?
That's a note, I must say!"
Mrs. Dunn's foot beat a lively tattoo on the rug. "I don't know what you
mean by a 'note,'" she commented, with majestic indignation. "I have
not lived in South Denboro, and perhaps my understanding of English
is defective. But marriages among cultivated people, SOCIETY people,
intelligent, ambitious people are, or should be, the result of thought
and planning. Others are impossible!"
"How about this thing we read so much about in novels?--Love, I believe
they call it."
"Love! Love is well enough, but it does not, of itself, pay for proper
clothes, or a proper establishment, or seats at the opera, or any of
the practical, necessary things of modern life.
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