I am not willing to marry Mr.Tavernake." The professor looked from one to the other and coughed.
"Are Mr.Tavernake's means," he asked, "of sufficient importance to warrant his entering into matrimony ?" "I have no money at all to speak of," Tavernake answered.

"That really isn't important.

I shall very soon make all that your daughter can spend." "I agree with my daughter, sir," the professor declared.

"The subject might well be left until such time as you have improved your position.
We will dismiss it, therefore,--dismiss it at once.

We will talk--" "Father," Beatrice interrupted, "let us talk about yourself.