"You apprehend that——"
"Never mind what I 'apprehend.' Take it just as I told you."
"Very good. A has asked her hand, B has not."
"Yes."
"May I take it that, but for the disturbing influence of B, A would be a satisfactory—er—candidate?"
"Ye—es. I think so."
"She, therefore, enjoys a certainty of considerable happiness if she marries A?"
"Ye—es. Not perfect, because of—B, you know."
"Quite so, quite so; but still a fair amount of happiness. Is it not so?"
"I don't—well, perhaps."