The final question discussed at our last meeting been: What shall our hero be?
MacShaughnassy had suggested an author, with a critic for the villain.

My idea was a stockbroker, with an undercurrent of romance in his nature.

Said Jephson, who has a practical mind: "The question is not what we like, but what the female novel-reader likes." "That is so," agreed MacShaughnassy.

"I propose that we collect feminine opinion upon this point.

I will write to my aunt and obtain from her the old lady's view.