I'd wait until the end of next week." Brock had listened in utter amazement to the opening portion of this ingenuous proposal.

As the flexile youth progressed, amazement gave place to indignation and then to disgust.

Brock's brow grew dark; the impulse to pull his countryman's nose was hard to overcome.

Never in all his life had he listened to such a frankly cold-blooded argument as that put forth by the insufferable Knicker-bocker.

In the end the big New Yorker saw only the laughable side of the little New Yorker's plight.
After all, he was a harmless egoist, from whom no girl could expect much in the way of recompense.