“But you say your mother, under your instruction, got over it.”
“Yes, but it was too late. The more she got over it the more he’d lambaste her, and when her money was all gone––”
“But do you think all—all hot-tempered couples have to go it in that way?”
She made a little hunching movement of the shoulders. “It’s mostly cat and dog anyhow. You and her—the other girl—won’t be much worse than others.”
“But you think we’ll be worse, to some extent at least.”
She ignored this to say, wistfully: “I suppose you’re awful fond of her.”
“I think I can say as much as that.”
“And is she fond of you?”
“She says so.”