Not she entirely, however.
Since her mother-in-law's first mention of a possible son whose wife would eventually thrust her from her seat at the head of the table, Rosalie had several times heard this son referred to.

It struck her that in England such things seemed discussed with more freedom than in America.

She had never heard a young woman's possible family arranged for and made the subject of conversation in the more crude atmosphere of New York.

It made her feel rather awkward at first.

Then she began to realise that the son was part of her wifely duty also; that she was expected to provide one, and that he was in some way expected to provide for the estate--to rehabilitate it--and that this was because her father, being a rich man, would provide for him.