The ordinary smart, pretty girl, who adorns the end of a dinner-table and makes an admirable mistress of a house, he would never think twice about.

But for all his sanity Lewie has many cranks, and a woman might get him on that side." "Don't talk of it.

I can picture the horrid reality.

He will marry some thin-lipped creature who will back him in all his madness, and his friends will have to bid him a reluctant farewell.

Or, worse still, there are scores of gushing, sentimental girls who might capture him.