"I'll tell you what let's do! A stenographer down at our office does all these letters for me--she's a bear, come to correspondence like that.

Now, I'll have her get out a letter from you to him that will sort of bring this thing to a head one way or the other.

We'll say that you can't think of going out there to marry a man sight-unseen----" "No," said Mary Warren.

"The lake, first." She was wringing her hands, her cheeks hot.
"But now, as a housekeeper----" After a long and perturbed silence Annie spoke again.

"That's the real live idea, Sis! That's the dope! You might _think_ of going out there as a housekeeper, just to see how things _looked_--just so that you could look things _over_, couldn't you?
You wouldn't marry any man in a hurry.