He had not questioned himself on that point.

Though his wife had told him that Marie was ever thinking of George, he had not believed that it was so.

He had no reason for disliking a marriage between his son and his wife's niece.

When he had first thought that they were going to be lovers, under his nose, without his permission,--going to commence a new kind of life between themselves without so much as a word spoken to him or by him,--he had found himself compelled to interfere, compelled as a father and an uncle.

That kind of thing could never be allowed to take place in a well-ordered house without the expressed sanction of the head of the household.