“About what, dear?”
“About what my aunts and grandmother will say.”
“Do you think they will object to me?”
“No-o.”
“What is it makes you doubtful? I have a little fortune of my own. I have an income besides my salary. I can take care of you. They can trust you to me.”
Annie looked at him with a quick flush of resentment. “As if I would even think of such a thing as that!”
“What then?”
“You will laugh, but grandmother is very old, although she sits up so straight, and she depends on me, and—”
“And what?”
“If I married you, I could not, of course, play pinocle with grandmother on Sunday.”