"He's been wanting to be married," went on Katherine, "for some time.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.She thinks you're nice, of course, but she's going to 'form'
you and 'train' you.You needn't worry about that, you needn't really, if you care about Paul.You'd manage both of them in a week.