The young man looked aimlessly at the fleecy clouds that hung low on the horizon.
"No," he answered.
"And you think you are ready for a passionate affection, if the right person is found?"
"I will try," he said, simply.
Mr. Weil roused himself and touched his horse with the whip.
"Try!" he echoed. "You will not have to try. She will carry you off your feet, at the first go. Shirley, I have found you a superb woman, that you must love. All I want to feel sure of is, that you can control yourself enough to behave in a reasonable manner."
Roseleaf looked up inquiringly.
"She belongs to an eminently respectable family," explained Archie. "Her father is a gentleman of the most honorable type. She has a young sister, who—"
Roseleaf, slow at all times, had at last begun to comprehend.
"You surely don't think—" he began.