The Mountain Girl by Emma Payne Erskine Chapter 31 Page 31

present wife make? What kind of a leader socially in your own class? You might better try to place a girl from the bogs of Ireland at the head of your table.”

Again David’s rage surged through him in a hot wave, but he controlled himself. “You admitted Cassandra has both beauty and charm?”

“Would my son have been attracted to her else? Nevertheless, what I say stands. As a help to you — ”

“You have done your duty, mother. I will say this for you — that for sophistry undiluted, a woman of the present day who stands where you do, can out-Greek the ancients. How is it we see so differently? Is it that I am like my father? How did he see things?”

“Your father