But while Morgan Ruyler believed that rich men should work and make their sons work, if only because an idle class was both out of place in a republic and conducive to unrest in the masses, it was quite otherwise with women.
They were for men to shelter, and it was their sole duty to be useful in the home, and, wherever possible, ornamental in public.

Nor had he the least faith in female talent.
Marian Ruyler had yielded the point and departed hopefully for a broader sphere when her second and favorite son was eight.

Morgan Ruyler married again as soon as convention would permit, this time carefully selecting a wife of the soundest New York predispositions and with a personal admiration of Queen Victoria; and he had watched young Price like an affectionate but inexorable parent hawk until the young man followed his brother--a quintessential Ruyler--into the now historic firm.

However, he suffered little from anxiety.

Price, too, was conservative, intensely proud of the family traditions, an almost impassioned worker, and unselfish as men go.