"One thing I want to ask you," he began rather apologetically; "you Southerners put quite an emphasis on family, and all that--not that it isn't quite all right, but you'll find it a little different here. I mean--you'll notice a lot of things that'll seem to you sort of vulgar display at first, Sally Carrol; but just remember that this is a three-generation town. Everybody has a father, and about half of us have grandfathers. Back of that we don't go."