Since you don't ask questions, I will take the initiative.

That is, unless your not asking them means you are not interested ?" Miss De Voe laughed in the last part of this speech.
"I should like to hear it." People, no matter what Peter stated, never said "Really ?" "You are in earnest ?" or "You really mean it ?" So Miss De Voe took him at his word.
"Both my father and mother were rich before they married, and the rise in New York real estate made them in time, much richer.

They both belonged to old families.

I was the only child--Lispenard says old families are so proud of themselves that they don't dare to have large families for fear of making the name common.

Of course they lavished all their thought, devotion and anxiety on me.