"Alice could not have come," said Kate, after a short pause.
"I don't know why she shouldn't have come. I won't have that woman about the place. She disgraced herself by marrying a blacksmith--."
"Why, George, it was you yourself who advised me to go and stay with her."
"That's a very different thing. Now that he's dead, and she's got his money, it's all very well that you should go to her occasionally; but I won't have her here."
"It's natural that she should come to her father's house at her father's death-bed."

"Alice could not have come," said Kate, after a short pause.
"I don't know why not. I won't have that woman about the place. She disgraced herself by marrying a blacksmith-."
"Why, George, you advised me to go and stay with her."
"That's a very different thing. Now that he's dead, and she's got his money, it's all very well that you should go to her occasionally; but I won't have her here."
"It's natural that she should come to her father's death-bed."
