"And taking you and Edward home to England. Would you like that?"
"I don't want to go to England. I want to stay here."
"So you see how impossible it would be to change."
"Quite impossible," Nancy agreed.
Herrick looked at the girl narrowly. He wondered if she were mocking him.
"What did the Ferrises think of your marriage?" he asked with a disconcerting shift in the direction of his words. "They didn't like it, I suppose?"
"Yes, they didn't like it."
"Did they want you to be a foreigner? Did they ask you to stay with them?"
"Yes."
"Did they tell you that your father was a fool, that he was ruining your life by his selfish schemes?"