I have never happened to meet any of them. We are in the West Side set, you know, while they move in the East Side set, and New York is so large that one almost never meets anyone outside one's own set." This smooth snobbishness, said in the affected "society" tone, was as out of place in her as rouge and hair dye in a wholesome, honest old grandmother.
I began to pace the floor. "Can it be," I fretted aloud, "that Joe's racing round looking for an Episcopalian preacher, when there was a Methodist at hand?"
"I'm sure he wouldn't bring anything but a Church of England priest," Mrs. Ball assured me, loftily.
"Why, Miss Ellersly wouldn't think she was married, if she hadn't a priest of her own church."
My temper got the bit in its teeth. I stopped before her, and fixed her with an eye that must have had some fire in it.
"I'm not marrying a fool, Mrs. Ball," said I. "You mustn't judge her by her bringing up-by her family.
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