"Look here; go by the 4.20 this afternoon, and take me with you.

We'll go to a nice quiet hotel, and have a beautiful dinner, and see some of the sights, and then you'd have all to-morrow morning to do your business with these horrid old gentlemen at the bank.

Now don't you think that's rather a good idea ?" "I--dare--_say_!" cried Aunt Charlotte, in her highest key.

"So that's what you're aiming at, is it?
Oh, you're a cunning boy, my dear, if ever there was one.

But your little project would cost at least four times as much as I propose to spend to-day, and for that reason alone it's not to be thought of for a moment.