'It brings trouble, Pitt.'
'Does not the other thing bring trouble? It would with me! If I knew a woman had married me for money, or if I knew I had married her for money, there would be no peace in my house.'
Mrs. Dallas laughed a little. 'You will have no need to do the latter thing,' she said.
'Mother, nobody has any need to do it.'
'You, at any rate, can please yourself. Only'—
'Only what?' said Pitt, now laughing in his turn, and twisting his head round to look up into her face. 'Go on, mother.'
'I am sure your father would never object to a girl because she was poor, if you liked her. But there are other things'—
'Well, what other things?'
'Pitt, a woman has great influence over her husband, if he loves her, and that you will be sure to do to any woman whom you make your wife. I should not like to have you marry out of your own Church.'
Pitt's head went round, and he laughed again.