“I don’t think I would,” Miss Winthrop replied. “But I would let her know I didn’t approve of her arrangement.”
“Supposing I just say, ‘Have other plans for you’?”
“That would do,” she nodded.
So he sent her this message, and that evening at dinner Miss Winthrop spoke to him of another matter.
“I don’t think you have shown much attention to her parents this summer. Oughtn’t you to see them and let them know what you intend?”
“Tell Stuyvesant?” he exclaimed.
“Why should he object?” she asked.
“I don’t know as he will. Then again he might. You see, I’ve never told him just how Dad tied things up.”
“What difference does that make?” she demanded. “With the house and what you’re earning, you have enough.”