I have not, in short, been able to tell her anything.
So you will have to do it for me.
But first, as man to man, I want to ask you a question.

Having found, by an extraordinary turn of luck, the perfect secretary, would you consider me sane if I let her go?
Of course you would not.

I asked myself the same question yesterday and received the same answer.
So I have asked her to marry me.
I put it that way because I know you like to have things broken to you.
And now, having heard all your objections (oh, yes, I can hear them.
Distance is only an idea) I shall proceed to answer them .-- No.

It is not unwise to marry a young girl whom I scarcely know.

Why man! That is part of the game.