I'm going to tell you everything so that I shall have been
perfectly fair. Grace wants him to be married too. All her life
she's looked after him and he's always done exactly what she told
him. He's rather lazy and it's not hard for some one to get an
influence over him. Well, she's not really a very good manager. She
thinks she is, but she isn't. She arranges things and wants things
to stay just where she puts them, but she arranges all the wrong
unnecessary things. Still, it's easy to criticise, and I'm not a
very good manager myself. I think she's growing rather tired of it
and would like some one to take it off her hands. Of course Paul
must marry the right person, some one whom she can control and
manage, and some one who won't transplant her in Paul's affection.
That's her idea. But it's all nonsense, of course. You can't have
your cake and eat it. She simply doesn't understand what marriage is
like. When Paul marries she'll learn more about life in a month than
she's learnt in all her days. Well, Maggie, dear, she thinks you're
just the girl for Paul. She thinks she can do what she likes with
you.
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