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"How supremely ridiculous you are! And I thought you such a sensible,
serious man."
"Mrs. Lambert put that in your head. We used to meet at the annual
dinners of the Bible Society."
"Why do you tell me such stuff?"
"It's a fact. Her father and my aunt were in that swim, and we were
sympathisers."
"Mercenary people!"
"It worked very well in her case; not so well in mine. But we conceived
a profound respect for each other then. But tell me, Marion, when is it
to be? Why put off the inevitable?"
"It isn't inevitable--and I'm only twenty-three."
"Only twenty-three,
And as good fish in the sea"
he responded, laughing. "Yes, but you've set the precedent for a
courtship of four years and a bit, and what man could face it?"
"You did."
"Yes, but I wasn't advertised of the fact beforehand. Suppose I had seen
the notice at the start: 'This mortgage cannot be raised inside of four
years--and a bit!' There's a limit to human endurance.
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