"You like to tease Fanny," he said, "but I wouldn't tease her about this, if I were you.

Fanny hasn't got much in her life.

You know, Georgie, just being an aunt isn't really the great career it may sometimes appear to you! In fact, I don't know of anything much that Fanny has got, except her feeling about Eugene.

She's always had it--and what's funny to us is pretty much life-and-death to her, I suspect.

Now, I'll not deny that Eugene Morgan is attracted to your mother.