America, and you're only a fifth-rate painter with a paltry thousand

or so a year!

You

marry her!--why, I dare say she's refused a

hundred better men than you! She'd think you were mad! Why, she'd

think you were after her money! She--oh, she'd only think you a

precious cheeky ass, she would, and she'd be quite right. You

are

an

ass, Billy Woods! You ought to be locked up in some nice quiet stable,