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At first,
Blithers, being an honest soul, insisted that a good American
gentleman was all that anybody could ask for in the way of a son-in-
law, and that when it came to a grandchild it would be perfectly
proper to christen him Duke--lots of people did!--and that was about
all that a title amounted to anyway. She met this with the retort
that Maud might marry a man named Jones, and how would Duke Jones
sound? He weakly suggested that they could christen him Marmaduke
and--but she reminded him of his oft-repeated boast that there was
nothing in the world too good for Maud and instituted a pictorial
campaign against his prejudices by painting in the most alluring
colours the picture of a ducal palace in which the name of Jones
would never be uttered except when employed in directing the fifth
footman or the third stable-boy--or perhaps a scullery maid--to do
this, that or the other thing at the behest of her Grace, the
daughter of William W. Blithers. This eventually worked on his
imagination to such an extent that he forgot his natural pride and
admitted that perhaps she was right.


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