"—to a house, which—"
"A house?"
"Certainly. On Battery Place."
"That isn't what you meant," bluntly accused the lawyer.
"Of course it isn't." There was an abrupt and complete change of voice and expression. "My boy, I suppose you think you're in love with my daughter."
The Tyro found this man suddenly a very likable person.
"Think!" he exclaimed.
"Well, if you think so hard enough, you are. And I suppose you want to marry her?"
"I'd give the heart out of my body for her."
"Do you know anything about the kind of girl she is? The life she leads? The things and people that make life for her? The sort of world she lives in?"