"I wash my hands of the whole affair," continued Edith curtly.

"So long as she doesn't want my help, as she has plainly made me feel, I certainly shan't stand in her way." "You're absolutely right," said her father.
"Stick to it," said Bruce approvingly.
But Edith did not stick to it.

In her case too, as the weeks wore on, those subtle family ties took hold and made her feel the least she could do was "to keep up appearances." So she and Bruce dined with the bride and groom, and in turn had them to dinner.

And these dinners, as Bruce confided to Roger, were occasions no man could forget.
"They come only about once a month," he said in a tone of pathos, "but it seems as though barely a week had gone by when Edith says to me again, 'We're dining with Laura and Hal to-night.' Well, and we dine.

Young Sloane is not a bad sort of a chap--works hard downtown and worships his wife.