"I have already made to myself in substance your last remark."

"I know you are not a lady's man, and perhaps for that very reason you
are all the more liable to an acute attack."

Graham laughed as he rose from the table, and asked, "Should I ever
venture to lay siege to Miss St. John, would I not have your
blessing?"

"Yes, and more than my blessing."

"What do you mean by more than your blessing?"

"I shall not commit myself until you commit yourself, and I do not
wish you to take even the first step without appreciating the risk of
the venture."

"Why, bless you, aunt," said Graham, now laughing heartily, "how
seriously you take it! I have spent but one evening with the girl."

The old lady nodded her head significantly as she replied, "I have not
lived to my time of life without learning a thing or two. My memory
also has not failed as yet. There were young men who looked at me once
just as you looked at Grace last evening, and I know what came of it
in more than one instance. You are safe now, and you may be
invulnerable, although it does not look like it; but if you can see
much of Grace St. John and remain untouched you are unlike most men."

"I have always had the name of being that, you know. But as the peril