she had
weighed
the
possibility.
“Why, they
might take
a
photograph
of my
child and
put it in
the papers
!” Mrs.
Welland
exclaimed
when her
mother’s
last plan
was hinted
to her;
and from
this
unthinkable
indecency
the clan
recoiled
with a
collective
shudder.
The
ancestress
had had to
give in;
but her
concession
was bought
only by
the
promise
that the
wedding-breakfast
should
take place
under her
roof,
though (as
the
Washington
Square
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