"Oh, I've known him since I was thirteen!"
"And you never spoke to me about him! Why I don't remember your ever even mentioning his name!"
"I don't believe I ever did. We will make up for it now, auntie."
"And he has really had the audacity to ask you to marry him?"
"And he has really had the audacity to ask you to marry him."
"Yes, auntie,"—very meekly.
"And you've said 'yes,' and you're going out with him to the South Seas?"
"Yes, auntie."