I asked him how Evelyn stood living in New York, but he said she likes it better than his father does.

Archie Fowler insists that he is coming back to Virginia to end his days.

They seem to have plenty of money.

I expect Archie has made a fortune up there or he wouldn't be satisfied to live out of Virginia." "Did George ask when I'd be at home ?" inquired Gabriella.
Though she knew that it was unwise to divert her mother's attention from the main narrative, her whole body ached with the longing to hear what George had said of her, and she felt that it was impossible to resist the temptation to question.
"He said something about you as he was going away, but I can't remember whether he asked when you would be in or not." In spite of the fact that Mrs.Carr had the most tenacious memory for useless detail, she was never able to recall the significant points of an interview.
"He didn't ask where I was ?" The question was indiscreet, for it jerked Mrs.Carr's mind back with violence from its innocent ramble into the past, while it reminded her of Gabriella's present unladylike occupation.

She shut her lips with soft but obstinate determination, and Gabriella, watching her closely, told herself that "wild horses couldn't drag another word out of her mother to-night." The girl longed to talk it over; but she might have tried as successfully to gossip with the angel on a marble tombstone.
She wanted to hear what George had said, to ask how he was looking, and to wonder aloud why he had come back.