Well, she will be able
to have fine times in your spacious, well-ordered establishment!
I hope at any rate that you will be able to keep her so far within
bounds that she will not venture to chaff you about "number one." Do not
let her think that my taste predominates in the style and decorations of
the house....
Dear friend, already I see you pushing the perambulator! Do you remember
the ludicrous incident connected with the fat merchant Bang, who married
late in life and was always called "gran'pa" by his youthful progeny? Of
course, that will not happen in your case--you are a year or two younger
than Bang, so your future family will more probably treat you like a
playfellow.
You see, I am quite carried away by my surprise and delight.
If it were the proper thing, I should immensely like to be at the
wedding; but I know you would not allow such a breach of all the
conventions.
Where are you going for the honeymoon? You might bring her to see me
here occasionally, in the depths of the country, so long as nobody knew.
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