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"I
thought--"
"Wait a minute! My idea is--don't forget it's a confidential one, but
I'm devilish right about it, young Georgie!--it's this: Fanny uses
your mother for a decoy duck. She does everything in the world she
can to keep your mother's friendship with Eugene going, because she
thinks that's what keeps Eugene about the place, so to speak. Fanny's
always with your mother, you see; and whenever he sees Isabel he sees
Fanny. Fanny thinks he'll get used to the idea of her being around,
and some day her chance may come! You see, she's probably afraid--
perhaps she even knows, poor thing!--that she wouldn't get to see much
of Eugene if it weren't for Isabel's being such a friend of his.
There! D'you see?"
"Well--I suppose so." George's brow was still dark, however. "If
you're sure whatever talk there is, is about Aunt Fanny. If that's
so--"
"Don't be an ass," his uncle advised him lightly, moving away. "I'm
off for a week's fishing to forget that woman in there, and her pig of
a husband." (His gesture toward the Mansion indicated Mr.


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