There are ways in which mother and father are better educated than we." "It does irritate me," admitted Arthur, "to find myself caring so much about the _looks_ of things." "Especially," said Adelaide, "when the people whose opinion we are afraid of are so contemptibly selfish and snobbish." "Still mother and father are narrow-minded," insisted her brother.
"Isn't everybody, about people who don't think as they do ?" "I've not the remotest objection to their having their own views," said Arthur loftily, "so long as they don't try to enforce those views on me." "But do they?
Haven't we been let do about as we please ?" Arthur shrugged his shoulders.

The discussion had led up to property again--to whether or not his father had the right to do as he pleased with his own.

And upon that discussion he did not wish to reenter.

He had not a doubt of the justice of his own views; but, somehow, to state them made him seem sordid and mercenary, even to himself.

Being really concerned for his mother's health, as well as about "looks," he strongly urged the doctor to issue orders on the subject of a nurse.