"Mr. St. Leger has all that, Dolly, and money to boot."
"Mother! There is all the difference in the world between the two men."
"St. Leger has the money, though; and that makes more difference than anything else I know of. Dolly, I wish you would make up your mind. I think that would bring your father all right."
"Where is father, mother?"
"Gone out."
"But I thought he would stay with you while I was away. Couldn't you keep him at home, mother? just this one day?"
"I never try to influence your father's motions, Dolly. I never did. And it would be no use. Men do not bear that sort of thing."
"What sort of thing?"
"Interference. They never do. No man of any spunk does. They are all alike in that."
"Do you mean that no man will give up any of his pleasure for a woman that he loves, and that loves him?"