“You work pretty hard, don’t you?” asked the attorney.
“Yes,” said the Irish lad.
“And your salary is small?”
“Yes.”
“And a mortgage on your mother’s home?” The agents of privilege always know a man’s necessities!
“Yes.”
“Well, now, I can tell you how things can be eased up a bit for you. For instance——”
After the proposal had been artfully made, the Irish lad thought a moment, and then he raised those blue eyes to the old lawyer.
“Your wife is prominent socially, isn’t she?”
“Why, yes.”