And your advice is——
Jerry
Marry me. I'm a nice fellow, too—and I can give you what you really care about. You're over your ears in debt, without any chance of paying up—or cutting down. And you are, shall we say, twenty-nine in October? I know what it cost you when your father died, and you had to come down a peg. You don't want to keep on—coming down, do you?
Clare
And so—you advise me to marry you?
Jerry
Yes.
Clare
[Looking at him squarely and significantly]: Knowing all I do know about you?
Jerry