"So they have a girl."
"Yes. Isn't she lovely?"
"Hmpf."
"Violet."
"They still haven't done their duty."
"Darling you know just as well as I do that it is entirely a matter of chance whether a baby turns out to be a boy or a girl."
"But their duty."
"Our granddaughter is not a child made out of duty, she is a child made out of love. And I'd much rather have only granddaughters and Robert happily married than a string of heirs and Robert unhappily married."
"What about the succession?"
"What about it? James has a son, the succession has been taken care of. It would be nice if Robert had a son too, but it wouldn't really matter if he didn't."
"How can you say that?"
"How can I not say it? It would rather hypocritical if I was disappointed by Robert not having produced an heir yet. And I told you countless times that it wouldn't matter to me if we never had a son."
"That was different."
"Why?"
"I was a lady of society, I brought more to this family than money and the hope of an heir."
"Violet, you did not bring any money into this family and you were just as unsuitable a match for me as Cora was for Robert, some might even say that you were even more unsuitable. Your family is older than Cora's, but by American standards Cora's family isn't that young and they belong to the first circles of society there."
"Me? Unsuitable?"
"In terms of what 'the ton' thinks, yes, absolutely. In terms of how I felt, still fell, absolutely not."