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... Those are
the things she had her eye on. Those are what she is trading herself
for. ... It's scandalous. What does your pledged word count for in a
case like this?... Your pledged word to a scheming, plotting,
mercenary little wretch!"
"Mother," said Bonbright, in a strained, tense voice, "I don't want
to speak to you harshly. I don't want to say anything sharp or unkind
to you--but you mustn't repeat that. ... You mustn't speak like that
about Ruth."
"I shall speak about her as I choose..."
"Georgia!..." said Mr. Foote, warningly.
"If you please, Bonbright." She put him back in his place. "_I_ will
settle this matter with our son--NOW."
"It is settled, mother," said Bonbright.
"Suppose you should be insane enough to marry her," said Mrs. Foote.
"Do you suppose I should tolerate her? Do you suppose I should admit
her to this house? Do you suppose your friends--people of your own
class--would receive her--or you?"
"Do you mean, mother," said Bonbright, his voice curiously quiet and
calm, "that you would not receive my wife here?"
"Exactly that.


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