"Mamma!" from Selina.
"I haven't finished," from Maudie, wiping her eyes and looking up. "After she's taken her examination, she's going to her college cousin up in Ohio, to wait and see if she passes. But she'll pass, we all know Juliette. And from there she'll enter college next fall. Juliette's written letters to send back to her grandfathers to see if either of them will help her through her college course with money. And if they won't she'll let Algy lend her enough to get her through."
"Algy!" from Mamma, scandalized, "doesn't she realize he's her husband?"
"Algy put her through college?" from Auntie bewildered. "Doesn't she understand she's married?"
Maud looked startled. She seemed to be seeing it in this light for the first time herself. "I—I don't believe she does. I don't believe it's occurred to Juliette that way at all. But," brightening, "Algy won't expect her to. He's sure to understand. He's always been that way; hasn't he, Selina?"
Selina nodded in corroboration.
"Accommodating, you know," further elucidated Maud, "and—er—perfectly willing to be—well—an expedient."
"Expedient!" from Mamma, "And you're speaking of the girl's husband?"
"Glorious," from Papa. "We've often thought it about ourselves, we husbands, but it takes the younger generation to admit it."
"I don't like this levity," from Auntie, "my head's all in a whirl and I don't understand," piteously. "Marriage is a solemn thing and carries heavy obligations. Hasn't she thought at all of what a very great deal she's taking for granted in this young man? In Algy?"