"But I have a reason," protested the Professor, earnestly.
"What is it?"
"I lofe her myself. I wish to make her my frau."
This was most astonishing.
"You love her yourself?"
"Ja, Herr Doctor."
"And you want to marry her?"
"Ja."
"But you are an old man."
"Not so old," said he, jealously; "I am only a little over sixty."