He would not have it, and took discreet steps to prevent any accident of the sort.

He wrote to America occasionally himself, and knowing well how to make himself civilly repellent, so subtly chilled his parents-in-law as to discourage in them more than once their half-formed plan of paying a visit to their child in her new home.

He opened, read and reclosed all epistles to and from New York, and while Mrs.Vanderpoel was much hurt to find that Rosalie never condescended to make any response to her tentatives concerning her possible visit, Rosalie herself was mystified by the fact that the journey "to Europe" was never spoken of.
"I don't see why they never seem to think of coming over," she said plaintively one day.

"They used to talk so much about it." "They ?" ejaculated the Dowager Lady Anstruthers.

"Whom may you mean ?" "Mother and father and Betty and some of the others." Her mother-in-law put up her eye-glasses to stare at her.
"The whole family ?" she inquired.
"There are not so many of them," Rosalie answered.
"A family is always too many to descend upon a young woman when she is married," observed her ladyship unmovedly.