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Mother Grace thought that it would be tactless to show her enthusiasm for what June was about to do. If she showed the happiness she felt, she thought it would reveal to June her disapproval of what her daughter had done before.
"As for those three boys, Hugh and Daniel and Kenneth-they're perfect dears. And the apartment is a lovely one. I don't blame you for preferring it to a furnished room," she had said. "Of course your friends think nothing of it and neither do their friends. But think of the world. Not your world, I suppose, but my world. If any of my friends ask ‘where's June living now' and I say, nonchalantly, ‘with three men over on Waverly Place'-what do you suppose they'll think? Not that I'm likely to answer them in any such way."