"She doesn't live with them."
"Well, but don't you see that's where we have the advantage over Hiram? They'll get more attached to our children because they'll see more of them. If you acted toward my sisters as you should, as your duty to me and to your children requires that you should, they might leave nearly all they have to our children, giving Hiram's children merely small bequests."
"If I should let them have their way with our babies, they certainly would leave all their money to Hiram's children, for there wouldn't be any babies in this house. They'd kill them off with slow torture."
"Hiram's children haven't died and Lizzie does with them as Jennie and Sadie have always advised her to do."
"Exceptions to every rule," Margaret briefly replied, perfectly willing to shield Lizzie.
"Well," said Daniel emphatically, "you keep up your present injudicious course, and the day will come when your children themselves will reproach you for having deprived them, by your sheer perversity, of what was justly their due."
"I hope to bring them up too well for that."
"And I hope to bring them up to have a little more judgment about money than you have, my dear! Well, I should say so! or they would be ill-prepared to take care of all they will inherit!"
"They will inherit a great deal, will they?" Margaret casually inquired.
"Enough to need some common sense in the management of it."