"I really think that you are right as usual," said she at last.
"I admire Charlie's aunt very much, you know, and I think that she is a very useful and good person, but I don't think she would do as a wife for poor quiet papa." "But he will certainly ask her, and I really think that she intends to accept him.

Then it would be too late to interfere.

We have only a few days at the most.

And what can we do?
How can we hope to make him change his mind ?" Again Ida pondered.

"He has never tried what it is to live with a strong-minded woman," said she.