Kendrick in every way fit
to know our young people."
Her fine eyes met his penetratingly, and he smiled in his turn. "That's
like you, Eleanor," said he, "to think first of the boy's character and
last of his wealth."
"A fig for his wealth!" she retorted with spirit. "I have two
daughters."
"I have made inquiries," said he with dignity, "of Louis, who knows
young Kendrick as one young man knows another, which is to the full. He
considers him to be more or less of an idler, and as much of a
spendthrift as a fellow in possession of a large income is likely to be
in spite of the cautions of a prudent grandfather. He has a passion for
travel and is correspondingly restless at home. But Louis thinks him to
be a young man of sufficiently worthy tastes and standards to have
escaped the worst contaminations, and he says he has never heard
anything to his discredit. That is considerable to say of a young man in
his position, Eleanor, and I hope it may constitute enough of a passport
to your favour to permit of your at least inviting him to dinner.
Besides--let me remind you--your daughters have standards of their own
which you have given them.
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