You do just as I say--do you understand ?--and don't interfere with your own wrong-headed opinions of what other people will think, and I'll take the risks of Mrs.Blandford giving me good advice.

Your wife has got a heap more sense on these subjects than you have, you bet.

You just tell her that I want to marry the girl and want her to help me--that I mean business, this time--and you'll see how quick she'll come down.

That's all I want of you.

Will you or won't you ?" With an outward expression of sceptical consideration and an inward suspicion of the peculiar force of this man's dogmatic insight, Blandford assented, with, I fear, the mental reservation of telling the story to his wife in his own way.