"Perhaps you wish to make out that he is only marrying Etelka for her money?"
"By no means."
"Do you accuse him of being a gambler?"
"He never touches cards."
"A spendthrift?"
"He is the very reverse—stares on both sides of every halfpenny before he parts with it."
"Do you think him lazy?"
"No, a model of plodding industry."
"Then what is amiss with his character?"
"It is perfect—almost monotonously so; but he has one peculiarity with which you ought to be made acquainted if you are going to marry your daughter to him."