But it was in very good taste," Mrs.Vivian added.
"He 's a fortunate man," said Bernard.

"He gets credit for his good taste--and he gets credit for the full figure of his income as well!" "Ah," murmured Mrs.Vivian, rising lightly, as if to make her words appear more casual, "I don't know the full figure of his income." She was turning away, and Bernard, as he raised his hat and separated from her, felt that it was rather cruel that he should let her go without enlightening her ignorance.

But he said to himself that she knew quite enough.

Indeed, he took a walk along the Lichtenthal Alley and carried out this line of reflection.

Whether or no Miss Vivian were in love with Gordon Wright, her mother was enamored of Gordon's fortune, and it had suddenly occurred to her that instead of treating the friend of her daughter's suitor with civil mistrust, she would help her case better by giving him a hint of her state of mind and appealing to his sense of propriety.