"Well, she should. She almost does, I think. She's just marrying because her dreadful mother——"
"Elizabeth!"
"She is a dreadful mother."
"So are we all sometimes, but it takes our contemporaries to judge us."
"But you are so nice, and she isn't, Mother, dear."
"Elizabeth, if you are in the confidence of the Farraday family in any way that I am not, you must not share that confidence with me."
"But it's Buddy's future we are talking about, and if I know things that will help us to work it out, I think I ought to be allowed to tell them."
"I think I can manage to get a perspective on Buddy's future without gossiping about the Farradays."
"Well, why can't you go and tell Ruthie about Buddy? Tell her he—he loves her, right out?"
"Why didn't you do that, dear?"