And,"-- slyly--"if Kitty should want to marry Thomas.

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." "Thomas ?" "Anything against the idea ?" "But Thomas couldn't take care of Kitty." "H'm." "And Kitty wouldn't marry a man who couldn't." "Some truth In that.

At present Thomas couldn't support an idea.

But there's makings in the boy, give a man time and nothing else to do.
There's one thing, though; Thomas seems to have the gift of picking out the chaff when it comes to men.