What are you hankerin' for, Steve--a breach-of-promise suit?
I've always understood those sort of cases were kind of unpleasant--for everybody but the newspapers." The boy was in deadly earnest.

"Pleasant!" he repeated.

"Is any of this business pleasant?
You make her act like a sensible girl! You're her guardian, and you make her! And, after that, if he tries to hedge, you tell him a few things.

You can hold him! Do it! _Do_ it!" Captain Elisha turned on his heel and began pacing up and down the room.
His nephew watched him eagerly.
"Well," he demanded, after a moment, "what are we going to do?
Are we going to make him make good ?" The captain paused.

"Steve," he answered, deliberately, "I ain't sure as we are.