Mrs. Wayne was shocked.
“Oh, no; not that, Pete. It isn’t that at all. But when a girl has been brought up—”
Wayne saw it all in an instant.
“Oh, yes, I see. We’ll talk of that later.”
But Adelaide had seen, too.
“No; do go on, Mrs. Wayne. You don’t approve of the way my daughter has been brought up.”
“I don’t think she has been brought up to be a poor man’s wife.”
“No. I own I did not have that particular destiny in mind.”
“And when I heard you assuming just now that every one was always concerned about money, and when I realized that the girl must have been brought up in that atmosphere and belief—”
“I see. You thought she was not quite the right wife for your son?”