He sat down by the table and took out a notebook and papers.
"But--settlements?
Is not that a little premature ?" she ventured.
"She has not accepted you." "HE may not accept my financial proposals.

It is business, you see.
The gentle ladies, even die Amerikaner, do not comprehend business.

It is not, you perceive, dear lady, the same when the head of the House of Wolfburgh allies himself with a hochgeboren Fraulein as when the tailors marry----" "Nor bakers.

I see," stammered Clara.
"Miss Dunbar's properties are valuable.

Her estate in Del-aware," glancing at his notebook, "is larger than some of our German kingdoms.
Her investments in railway and mining securities, if put on the market, should be worth a million of florins.