That's what I'm afraid of.

Won't you just cut her out of your life, Larry ?" It had been a prodigiously long speech for the Duchess.

And Larry realized that the emotion behind it was a thousand times what showed in the thin voice of the bent, gestureless figure.
"For your sake I'm sorry, grandmother.

But I can't." "Then it's only fair to tell you, Larry," she said in a more composed tone which expressed a finality of decision, "that if there's ever anything I can do to stop this, I'll do it.

For she's bad for you--what with her stiff spirit--and the ideas Old Jimmie has put into her--and the way Old Jimmie has brought her up.