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"She said my mother wanted
you to be friendly to her about Eugene Morgan. She said my mother had
been using Aunt Fanny as a chaperone."
Amberson emitted a laugh of disgust. "It's wonderful what tommy-rot a
woman in a state of spite can think of! I suppose you don't doubt
that Amelia Amberson created this specimen of tommy-rot herself?"
"I know she did."
"Then what's the matter?"
"She said--" George faltered again. "She said--she implied people
were--were talking about it."
"Of all the damn nonsense!" his uncle exclaimed. George looked at him
haggardly. "You're sure they're not?"
"Rubbish! Your mother's on my side about this division because she
knows Sydney's a pig and always has been a pig, and so has his
spiteful wife. I'm trying to keep them from getting the better of
your mother as well as from getting the better of me, don't you
suppose? Well, they're in a rage because Sydney always could do what
he liked with father unless your mother interfered, and they know I
got Isabel to ask him not to do what they wanted.


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