"Nor me, either," said Sadie. "Do you think, Jennie," she anxiously asked, "folks will talk at our still keeping house for Danny when he's married? You know how Danny always made us promise we'd stay by him, married or single?"
Jennie sniffed. "As if he could get along without us! As if any one else could learn his ways and how he likes things—and him so particular about his little comforts! He wouldn't leave us go away! And look at what he saves with us paying half the household expenses!"
"And as for his wife's not liking it——" began Sadie.
"As for her," Jennie sharply put in, "she's coming here without asking us if we like it—she'll be put in her place right from the start."
"But if she's got money of her own mebby," Sadie suggested doubtfully, "she could be independent, too, then."
"Well, to be sure she'd put her money in her husband's care, wouldn't she?—and him a lawyer."
"A body couldn't be sure she'd do that till they saw once what kind of a person she was, Jennie."
"Well," Jennie stoutly maintained, "Danny'll see that she does."
It will be noted that the story of Miss Berkeley's "distinguished lineage" did not greatly impress Jennie and Sadie Leitzel. They did not quite understand it. They knew nothing about such a thing as a distinguished lineage; New Munich "aristocrats" certainly did not have any; and the sisters' experiences being limited to life as it was in New Munich, whose "first families" were such only by reason of their "means," Sadie and Jennie were ignorant of any other measure of excellence. To be poor and at the same time of any significance, was a combination unknown to them.
As the newspapers did not state how closely those ancestral governors were related to Miss Berkeley, the relationship was undoubtedly so distant as to be negligible.