But marriages among cultivated people, _society_ people, intelligent, ambitious people are, or should be, the result of thought and planning.

Others are impossible!" "How about this thing we read so much about in novels ?--Love, I believe they call it." "Love! Love is well enough, but it does not, of itself, pay for proper clothes, or a proper establishment, or seats at the opera, or any of the practical, necessary things of modern life.

You can't keep up a presentable appearance on _love_! If I had a daughter who lacked the brains to understand what I had taught her, that is, her duty as a member of good society, and talked of making a love match, I would....
But there! You can't understand, I suppose." She rose and shook the wrinkles from her gown.

Captain Elisha straightened in his chair.

"Why, yes, ma'am," he drawled, quietly; "yes, ma'am, I guess I understand fust-rate." And suddenly Mrs.Dunn also understood.