"I had an idea that you'd be tickled to death to marry into the Wintermill family.
Position, money, family jewels, and all that sort of thing.

Everything desirable except Percy.

And then, just when I thought something might come of it, you up and get engaged to Brady Thorpe, keeping it secret from the public into the bargain.

Confound it, you didn't even tell me till last fall.

Your stupid secretiveness allowed me to go on getting into Percy's debt, when a word from you might have saved me a lot of trouble." "Will you kindly leave the room, George ?" said his mother, arising.
"Percy is making himself fearfully obnoxious," went on George ominously.
"For nearly three weeks I've been dodging him, and it can't go on much longer.