“Why, to know if you liked me.”

“Oh! it wasn’t worth while.”

“But it seems to me that if——”

“I am too well bred not to obey my aunt.”

“But if I had been old, ugly, and gouty?”

“That wouldn’t have made any difference.”

“You would have married me just the same?”

“Of course, if my aunt had said so.”

“Why, then you have no inclination for me?”

“What is an inclination?”