Sally now resolved to brace up and risk a frontal attack.

So he squarely proposed to disguise himself and go to Tilbury's village and surreptitiously find out as to the prospects.

Aleck put her foot on the dangerous project with energy and decision.

She said: "What can you be thinking of?
You do keep my hands full! You have to be watched all the time, like a little child, to keep you from walking into the fire.

You'll stay right where you are!" "Why, Aleck, I could do it and not be found out--I'm certain of it." "Sally Foster, don't you know you would have to inquire around ?" "Of course, but what of it?
Nobody would suspect who I was." "Oh, listen to the man! Some day you've got to prove to the executors that you never inquired.