You can't get away
from that. Yes, I _do_ advise you to marry an American girl."
"In other words, I am to make a business of it," said Robin,
tolerantly.
"It isn't beyond the range of possibility that you should fall in
love with an American girl, is it? You wouldn't call that making a
business of it, would you?"
"You may rest assured, Mr. Blithers, that I shall marry to please
myself and no one else," said Robin, regarding him with a coldness
that for an instant affected the millionaire uncomfortably.
"Well," said Mr. Blithers, after a moment of hard thinking, "it may
interest you to know that I married for love."
"It _does_ interest me," said Robin. "I am glad that you did."
"I was a comparatively poor man when I married. The girl I married
was well-off in her own right. She had brains as well. We worked
together to lay the foundation for a--well, for the fortune we now
possess. A fortune, I may add, that is to go, every dollar of it, to
my daughter. It represents nearly five hundred million dollars. The
greatest king in the world to-day is poor in comparison to that vast
estate.
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