"Yes, and everything else en suite. This again is a matter of taste, and each must please herself; but what I cannot stand is a woman who deliberately chooses love in a cottage, and then throws the cottage in her husband's teeth, and omits the love. Make your choice, I say; but when you have made it, stick to it."
"I have no patience with girls who will marry poor men, and then quarrel with them for being poor," agreed Isabel.
"Neither have I."
"If I married Paul, I should never be nasty to him afterwards because he wasn't rich."
"I should hope you would not," said Lady Farley. "I should be ashamed of having brought you up if you were. But that is all the more reason for not being in a hurry."
"I know it is."
"I also think, my dear Isabel, that among the cons, you should reckon up the fact that Lord Wrexham is very much in love with you, and that you might be a peeress if you were so minded."
"Yes."
"You should also make a note that Society will invite Lady Wrexham to dinner, but Mrs. Paul Seaton only to the reception afterwards."
Isabel winced. "I know that also."