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"Of course, they will be as mad as so many March hares," said Alice, referring to the other Pennycuicks. "But after all, when you come to think of it, what is there in a draper's shop any more than in a soft-goods warehouse? and that's quite aristocratic, if it's big enough. Trade is trade, and why we should make chalk of one and cheese of another passes me.
Deb kept asking herself, glad at heart to see such signs, which yet lessened her pity for and interest in her sister. But Mary, with all the pride of the Pennycuicks in her, was not, one to "let on". Her skeleton was locked tight in the cupboard it belonged to when visitors were about especially such a visitor as this and also when they were not about, so far as she could have it so.
Poor Mr Goldsworthy, incurable cadger that he was, was bound to feel the family reverses acutely. When he had married Miss Pennycuick for her good, in that risky manner, he had naturally expected to be rewarded for the deed. If ever it be safe to trust to appearances, it had seemed safe then, so far as the solidity of the Pennycuicks' position was concerned.
The Pennycuicks and the Careys have been neighbours for generations." "I am only distantly related to that family." "A Carey is a Carey," persisted the old man, who had determined to have it so from the first, and he would listen to no disclaimers. He had already referred darkly to that Mary Carey of the hooked nose and pointed chin. His eldest daughter, he said, had been named after her.
It was to Wellwood that she went to be married. From the old home of the Careys she was driven to the old church of the Pennycuicks, full of mouldering monuments to a nearly vanished race; it was buried in its rural solitude, far from railways and gossip-mongers and newspaper reporters, and the wedding was as quiet as quiet could be. Guthrie was acting brother, and gave her away.
"It was very hard on you," Deb said gently contradicting the Deb of an earlier time and different state of things "to have those expectations, which were certainly justified, and to be disappointed as you were. I feel that we Pennycuicks were to blame in that " "Oh, dear, no!" he earnestly assured her.
Not touching the balance of his wits, be it understood; just heartening him no more. Twice and thrice she branched off from the road to show him something that could well have waited for another day. She was imprudent enough to introduce him to so sentimental a spot as the family cemetery established at a time when there were only Dalzells and Pennycuicks to feed it.
At the same time, they hinted that other things were not as they used to be that the old man had had losses that Redford was heavily burdened that the proud Pennycuicks, already humbled, were likely to experience a further fall.
Miss Urquhart's feelings, when she realised the fact that one of the Pennycuicks was committed to marry a draper, expressed themselves at first in a rather chilling silence. But subsequently, having reviewed the situation from its several sides, and weighed the pros and cons, she decided to assist her friend to make the best of it, as against all potential enemies.
We Pennycuicks, we don't abandon our belongings, especially when they may be dying; we sink or swim together." She held the jewel out to him. "What rot!" he blurted vulgarly, flushing with anger that was not unmixed with shame. "Why will you wilfully misunderstand me? Put it on, Deb put it on, and don't be so childish."
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