"Don't pose before me.

You know very well you're marrying this man because you believe he will amount to a great deal." Margaret beamed upon her grandmother triumphantly, as if she had stepped into a trap that had been set for her.

"And your only reason for being angry," cried she, "is that you don't believe he will." "I know he won't.

He can't.

Stillwater has kept him solely because that unspeakable wife of his hopes to foist their dull, ugly eldest girl on him." "You think a man as shrewd as Stillwater would marry his daughter to a nobody ?" "It's useless for you to argue, Margaret," snapped the old lady.