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of your daughter-in-law? Mothers never are, are they?’ He was not impudent, but she did not know why not. She must accept him, if she accepted him at all, on his own terms. She felt that she accepted him yet kept him at the distance she intended as she said: ‘Very fond. She is a charming young woman: very clever and interesting.’

‘Does she take what she wants, or what she is given?’ Captain Ingpen enquired, and Monica said: ‘Oh—she’s quite modern; you will approve of her.’