Now, you've got quite a good-sized, respectable nose upon your face.

I submit that the situation is quite as plain as that nose, if you look at it in the broad light of understanding.

If you think that I am marrying Anne because I love her, or because I am in my dotage and afflicted with senility, you are very much mistaken.

If you think I am giving her two million dollars as a wedding gift because I expect it to purchase her love and esteem, you do my intelligence an injustice.

If you think that I relish the prospect of having that girl in my house from now till the day I die, worrying the soul out of me, you are too simple for words.