"You're all to the good, Larry--and I'm not giving you half enough." That provided Larry with the opening he had desired.

"You can make it up to me." "How ?" "By helping me out with a proposition of my own.

To come straight to the point, it's Maggie." "Maggie ?" "I guess you know how I feel there.

She's got a wrong set of ideas, and she's fixed in them--and you know how high-spirited she is.

She's out in the world now, trying to put something crooked over which she thinks is big.