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 "Priscilla? Oh, yes, the girl. Well, what's the difference?"

"Mrs. Kaley Martin, the mother of a débutante, is not the same person as this Mrs. Kaley Martin."

"What difference can she make in your life?"

"I don't know—she may make none; and yet I have a feeling, a foreboding, that she is going to make a great deal."

"What sort of a girl is this daughter of yours, anyhow?"

"I don't know—really, I don't. I've never gotten at her much. You see, she's been away to school for so long, and before that there were governesses—" She leaned toward him impulsively. "Tony, do you think it's a horrible thing for me not to want this strange young woman to come here and interfere with my whole scheme of life?"

"She'll probably marry."

"I don't know—perhaps. She's rather pretty, I think; but she is not clever."