"
"Well, I declare, Mrs. Lindsay," replied Mrs. Goodwin, (God forgive
her!) "you have taken us quite by surprise--you have indeed;--dear
me--I'm quite agitated; but he is, indeed, a fine young man--a perfect
gentleman in his manners, and if he be as good as he looks--for
marriage, God help us, tries us all--"
"I hope it never tried you much, Martha," replied her husband, smiling.
"No, my dear, I don't say so. Still, when the happiness of one's child
is concerned--and such a child as Alice--"
"But consider, Mrs. Goodwin," replied the ambassadress, who, in
fact, was not far from an explosion at what she considered a piece of
contemptible vacillation on the part of her neighbor--"consider, Mrs.
Goodwin," said she, "that the happiness of my son is concerned."
"I know it is," she replied; "but speak to her father, Mrs. Lindsay--he,
as such, is the proper person--O, dear me."
"Well, Mr. Goodwin--you have heard what I have said?"
"I have, madam," said he; "but thank God I am not so nervous as my good
wife here. I like your son, Harry, very much, from what I have seen
of him--and, to be plain with you, I really see no objection to such a
match.
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