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Peter had
replied quietly, but his question, as Miss De Voe understood it, was
purely scientific, not personal. Miss De Voe replied:
"I suppose it is not right, but it is so much better than what may
happen, that it really seems best. It is so hard for a girl in Dorothy's
position to marry as we should altogether wish."
"Why?" asked Peter, who did not see that a girl with prospective wealth,
fine social position, and personal charm, was not necessarily well
situated to get the right kind of a husband.
"It is hard to make it clear--but--I'll tell you my own story, so that
you can understand. Since you don't ask questions, I will take the
initiative. That is, unless your not asking them means you are not
interested?" Miss De Voe laughed in the last part of this speech.
"I should like to hear it."
People, no matter what Peter stated, never said "Really?" "You are in
earnest?" or "You really mean it?" So Miss De Voe took him at his word.
"Both my father and mother were rich before they married, and the rise
in New York real estate made them in time, much richer.


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