Well, what of the argument--what ?" Her manner is a little excited.
"I, for one, object to the marriage," says Margaret distinctly.

"The child is too young and too rich! She should be given a chance; she should not be coerced and drawn into a mesh, as it were, without her knowledge." "A mesh?
Do you call a marriage with my son a mesh ?" asks Lady Rylton angrily.

"He of one of the oldest families in England, and she a nobody!" "There is no such thing as a nobody," says Miss Knollys calmly.
"This girl has intellect, mind, a _soul!_ She has even money! She _must_ be considered." "She has no birth!" says Lady Rylton.

"If you are going in for Socialistic principles, Margaret, pray do not expect _me_ to follow you.

I despise folly of that sort." "I am not a Socialist," says Margaret slowly, "and yet why cannot this child be accepted as one of ourselves?
Where is the great difference?
You object to her marrying your son, yet you _want_ to marry her to your son.