'Nigel had to marry money,' was all she said.

'He couldn't have kept the place going if he hadn't.

Jessie isn't at all a bad sort, and they get on very well and have three nice little boys; but I don't much take to her nor she to me, so that I'm not much there any more.' 'And your mother ?' Althea questioned, 'where does she live?
Don't you stay with her ever ?' She had gathered that the widowed Mrs.Buchanan was very pretty and very selfish, but she was hardly prepared for the frankness with which Miss Buchanan defined her own attitude towards her.
'Oh, I can't stand Mamma,' she said; 'we don't get on at all.

I'm not fond of rowdy people, and Mamma knows such dreadful bounders.

So long as people have plenty of money and make things amusing for her, she'll put up with anything.' Althea had all the American reverence for the sanctities and loyalties of the family, and these ruthless explanations filled her with uneasy surprise.