"She wants to get hold of him."
"Then why will she marry him to another woman?"
"Because in that way she can select the other—a woman he won't care for. It will keep him from taking some one that's nicer."
Hugh Gosselin stared—he laughed aloud. "Lord, mamma, you're deep!"
"Indeed I am, I see much more."
"What do you see?"
"Mary won't in the least care for America. Don't tell me she will," Mrs. Gosselin added, "for you know perfectly you don't believe it."
"She'll care for her husband, she'll care for everything that concerns him."
"He's very nice, in his little way he's delightful. But as an alternative to Lord Beaupré he's ridiculous!"
"Mary's in a position in which she has nothing to do with alternatives."