I can afford to marry now; won't you stay in Colorado and be my wife ?" "I don't think you know what you are saying, Clarence.

I'm older than you are.

I thought you looked upon me as a sort of mother or older sister." "Only fifteen months older," retorted Clarence.

"I never heard of any one's being a mother at that age.

I'm a man now, I would have you remember, though I am a little younger than you, and know my own mind as well as if I were fifty.