You and she liked each other well enough, but the whole thing was a family arrangement, a money arrangement, a perfectly respectable, buy-and-sell affair.

That and nothing else.

And the more you thought about it, the surer you felt that it was so.

But when you told your governor he got on his ear and sailed into you, and you sailed back, until finally he swore that you should either marry that girl or he'd throw you out of his house and office to root for yourself.

What would you do ?" "Hey?
Land sakes! I don't know.