Wayne stared.
"Mother," he said, "you don't mean to say you are letting yourself be influenced by a taunt like that of Mrs.Farron's, which she didn't even believe herself ?" Mrs.Wayne was shocked.
"Oh, no; not that, Pete.

It isn't that at all.

But when a girl has been brought up--" Wayne saw it all in an instant.
"Oh, yes, I see.

We'll talk of that later." But Adelaide had seen, too.
"No; do go on, Mrs.Wayne.You don't approve of the way my daughter has been brought up." "I don't think she has been brought up to be a poor man's wife." "No.

I own I did not have that particular destiny in mind." "And when I heard you assuming just now that every one was always concerned about money, and when I realized that the girl must have been brought up in that atmosphere and belief--" "I see.