Her mind was quick to grasp facts, and she had learned already something of a man's instinctive dislike to being made to give an account of himself.
"You've been hearing too much gossip to-night," he rejoined gaily.

"Take care what you listen to." "Don't joke, dear.

I wish you would tell me things." "There isn't anything to tell, is there ?" "Is your father very rich ?" "Not very.

Did you think you were marrying a millionaire ?" "I never thought about it, but everybody at home thinks he has a great deal of money, and yet your mother talks as if she were poor." "Well, he made a pile of money in a big deal about ten years ago, and the papers had a lot about it.

After that he lost it, or most of it, and the papers didn't tell.