"Still, you see, don't you, that neither of the reasons you have advanced are—adequate?"

"I see nothing of the sort."

"But look!" He tapped one palm with his pipe as though to lend emphasis. "The first objection is easily remedied. I'm not hard to know. That merely takes a little time; say a week or ten days. The second objection—well, I don't say positively that that can be remedied, but I think it might. Do you?"

"I—I haven't considered it."

"Well, won't you, please? You see, it makes a lot of difference to me, Prue."

"You have no right to call me Prue!"

"You're forgetting our compact."

"Well, you needn't—do it so much, then."

"I'll try not to. You decline to consider it, then?"

"I do."

"That's unwise. For all you know I may be just the chap for you. I think you