'
'But she wouldn't yield about Gibson,' said Brooke.
'How did she and my aunt manage?'
'Your sister simply said she couldn't and then that she wouldn't. I
never thought from the first moment that she'd take that fellow. In the
first place he can't say boo to a goose.'
'But Dolly wouldn't want a man to say boo.'
'I'm not so sure of that, old fellow. At any rate I mean to try myself.
Now what'll the old woman say?'
'She'll be pleased as Punch, I should think,' said Stanbury.
'Either that or else she'll swear that she'll never speak another word
to either of us. However, I shall go on with it.'
'Does Dorothy know anything of this?' asked Stanbury.
'Not a word,' said Brooke. 'I came away a day or so after Gibson was
settled; and as I had been talked to all through the affair by both of
them, I couldn't turn round and offer myself the moment he was gone.
You won't object will you?'
'Who; I?' said Stanbury. 'I shall have no objection as long as Dolly
pleases herself. Of course you know that we haven't as much as a brass
farthing among us?'
'That won't matter if the old lady takes it kindly,' said Brooke.
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