I'm sure he'd never be anything really bad: and he'll come around all right about the glue-works, too; you'll see.

Of course every young man wants money--it doesn't prove he's doing anything wrong just because he asks you for it." "No.

All it proves to me is that he hasn't got good sense asking me for three hundred and fifty dollars, when he knows as well as you do the position I'm in! If I wanted to, I couldn't hardly let him have three hundred and fifty cents, let alone dollars!" "I'm afraid you'll have to let ME have that much--and maybe a little more," she ventured, timidly; and she told him of her plans for the morrow.

He objected vehemently.
"Oh, but Alice has probably asked him by this time," Mrs.Adams said.
"It really must be done, Virgil: you don't want him to think she's ashamed of us, do you ?" "Well, go ahead, but just let me stay away," he begged.

"Of course I expect to undergo a kind of talk with him, when he gets ready to say something to us about Alice, but I do hate to have to sit through a fashionable dinner." "Why, it isn't going to bother you," she said; "just one young man as a guest." "Yes, I know; but you want to have all this fancy cookin'; and I see well enough you're going to get that old dress suit out of the cedar chest in the attic, and try to make me put it on me." "I do think you better, Virgil." "I hope the moths have got in it," he said.