'Find out for yourself, since you pretend to study folks.'
'Oh, your judgment would probably not at all determine mine. It's in regard to yourself that I ask it.'
'In regard to myself?'
'To see the length of maternal immorality.'
Mrs. Nettlepoint continued to repeat my words. 'Maternal immorality?'
'You desire your son to have every possible distraction on his voyage, and if you can make up your mind in the sense I refer to that will make it all right. He will have no responsibility.'
'Heavens, how you analyse! I haven't in the least your passion for making up my mind.'
'Then if you chance it you'll be more immoral still.'
'Your reasoning is strange,' said the poor lady; 'when it was you who tried to put it into my head yesterday that she had asked him to come.'
'Yes, but in good faith.'