"Yes."
"Well—I said the most proper and sufficient impressions which a girl can have to—to—"
"To protect her! I understand. Please go on."
"Must be and should be those which, with a reasonable opportunity of knowing and judging a man, she forms for herself."
"And Mr. Dunneston did not agree? He thought it necessary, did he not, that one person's family should be known to the other's for at least a few hundred years?"
"Well," the girl smiled, "he seemed to think that preferable—but not exactly necessary."
"But he did think it absolutely essential for proper protection that before a girl permits a man to see much of her, she should know from some—some responsible friend of both, the manner of man he may be?"
"Yes. He was unyielding on that point."
"All of unyielding, I guess. Well—and when you told him that you had merely met
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