She knew he was easily deceived and sometimes half-consciously deceived himself.
"No," she said, "I don't think the work will really be cheap.

It's often expensive to take a favor from a man like Bell.

He will find a means of making you pay." "Ridiculous! Bell can't make me pay." "Then he will make somebody else pay for what he does for you, and it's hardly honest to let him," Grace insisted.
Mrs.Osborn gave her a warning glance and Osborn's face got red.
"It's a new thing for a young girl to criticize her father.

This is what comes of indulging your mother and making some sacrifice to send you to an expensive modern school! If I'd had my way, you would have gone to another, where they teach the old-fashioned virtues: modesty, obedience, and respect for parents." Grace smiled, because she knew the school Osborn meant and the type it produced.

She was grateful to her mother for a better start.
"I'm sorry," she said quietly, but with a hint of resolution.