'Then why recommend such a marriage?'
'Because we must consider ourselves, not the unborn possibilities. However, to return to the subject that now most occupies me. My condition is desperate. You must marry. I can support you no longer.'
'And so you deport me to Algiers?'
'My dear boy, we are not going to Algiers.'
'Then where to?'
'To Andermatt.'
'Andermatt!—Where is that?'
'On the St. Gothard.'
'And pray why to Andermatt on the St. Gothard?'
'Because Mrs. Baynes is there.'