"We're all going to the Assembly, after dinner, aren't we?
Brother George said he'd go with us." "Look here," said George abruptly.

"How about this man Morgan and his old sewing-machine?
Doesn't he want to get grandfather to put money into it?
Isn't he trying to work Uncle George for that?
Isn't that what he's up to ?" It was Miss Fanny who responded.

"You little silly!" she cried, with surprising sharpness.

"What on earth are you talking about?
Eugene Morgan's perfectly able to finance his own inventions these days." "I'll bet he borrows money of Uncle George," the nephew insisted.
Isabel looked at him in grave perplexity.

"Why do you say such a thing, George ?" she asked.
"He strikes me as that sort of man," he answered doggedly.