"I wonder whether she has accepted him."
"I think she very nearly did accept him in London."
"I can't quite sympathise with your mother in all her feelings about this marriage, because I do not think that I recognise as she does the necessity of money."
"Felix is so disposed to be extravagant."
"Well; yes. But I was going to say that though I cannot bring myself to say anything to encourage her about this heiress, I quite recognise her unselfish devotion to his interests."
"Mamma thinks more of him than of anything," said Hetta, not in the least intending to accuse her mother of indifference to herself.
"I know it; and though I happen to think myself that her other child would better repay her devotion,"--this he said, looking up to Hetta and smiling,--"I quite feel how good a mother she is to Felix. You know, when she first came the other day we almost had a quarrel."
"I felt that there was something unpleasant."

"I wonder whether she has accepted him."
"I think she very nearly did accept him in London."
"I can't quite sympathise with your mother in all her feelings about this marriage. But I quite recognise her unselfish devotion to his interests."
"Mamma thinks more of him than of anything," said Hetta, not intending to accuse her mother of indifference to herself.
"I know; and though I happen to think that her other child would better repay her devotion," - he smiled at Hetta - "I know how good a mother she is to Felix. You know, the other day we almost had a quarrel. 