“What does she graciously suggest for you?”
“Why, I suppose she wishes to be kind to me because she was very fond of my grandmother.... But I couldn’t go and live with her.”
“She asked you?”
Eris nodded.
“My aunt,” he said good humouredly, “is very rich and very stingy. You’re the only person I ever heard of on whom she was ready to spend real money. What did she propose?”
“Adoption, I believe.”
“Lord! She really must have cared for your grandmother....”
“I think she really did.”
After a silence: “You declined?”
“Darling! Do you think such things count with me?”