You have got to give more thought to family matters.

It's right for Marian to marry, and I think a girl of her tastes should settle early, but we must guard her from mistakes.

I've had that on my conscience several years." "Of course, Hallie; and I've not been unmindful of it." "And if Aunt Sally is interested in young Harwood and you think well of him yourself--but of course I don't favor him for Marian.

I should like Marian to marry into a family of some standing." "Well, we'll see to it that she does; we want our daughter to be happy--we must do the best we can for our children," he concluded largely.
She promised to appear at the dinner table, and he went down with some idea of seeing Mrs.Owen at once, to assure her of his honorable intentions toward her in the "Courier" matter; he wanted to relieve his own fears as well as his wife's as to the mischief that had been wrought by Thatcher's suit.
In the hall below he met Sylvia, just back from her first day at the normal school.

The maid had admitted her, and she was slipping her parasol into the rack as he came downstairs.