"Why, father and mother, how fine you look!"
"It would be strange indeed if we did not honor this day," said
Mrs. Banning. "I hope you have not so tired yourself, sir, that
you cannot enjoy your dinner. I could scarcely believe my eyes as
I watched you from the window."
"I am afraid I shall astonish you still more at the table. I am
simply ravenous."
"This is your chance," cried Sue. "You are now to be paid in the
coin you asked for."
Sue did remark to herself by the time they reached dessert and
coffee, "I need have no scruples in refusing a man with such an
appetite; he won't pine. He is a lawyer, sure enough. He is just
winning father and mother hand over hand."
Indeed, the bosom of good Mrs. Banning must have been environed
with steel not to have had throbs of goodwill toward one who
showed such hearty appreciation of her capital dinner. But Sue
became only the more resolved that she was not going to yield so
readily to this muscular suitor who was digging and eating his way
straight into the hearts of her ancestors, and she proposed to be
unusually elusive and alert during the afternoon.
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