"Can't you get her to bounce him?"
"I have done what I could, but she seems to be infatuated. If he were a gentleman's son I shouldn't mind so much, but Harold saw him the other day selling papers near the Sherman House."
"Do you think aunt's mind is failing?"
"She seems rational enough on all other subjects. She was always shrewd and sharp, you know."
"Well, that's rather an interesting state of things. I haven't returned to Chicago any too soon."
"Why do you say that?"
"Because it will be my duty to spoil the chances of this presuming young man."
"That is easier said than done. You forget that Aunt Eliza thinks a great deal more of him than she does of you."
"I haven't a doubt that you are right."
"Then what can you do?"