"I dare say it's me he wishes to see. It seems to be the fashionable plan now for gentlemen to make offers by deputy. If he says anything, I can only refer him to you, you know."
"Yes, you can; you can tell him simply that I won't have him. But he is no more thinking of me than--"
"Than he is of me, you were going to say."
"No, aunt; I wasn't going to say that at all."
"Well, we shall see. If he does mean anything, of course you can please yourself; but I really think you might do worse."
"But if I don't want to do at all?"

"It seems to be the fashion now for gentlemen to make offers by deputy. If he says anything, I can only refer him to you, you know."
"You can tell him simply that I won't have him. But he is not thinking of me."
"Well, we shall see. If he does mean anything, of course you can please yourself; but I really think you might do worse."
