"Ah, I see," cried Ralph; "and to prevent it you want me to step in and marry her?"
"Not quite; that remedy would be as bad as the disease, for you＇re the typical, the fell European from whom I wish to rescue her. No; I wish you to take an interest in another person—a young man to whom she once gave great encouragement and whom she now doesn＇t seem to think good enough. He＇s a thoroughly grand man and a very dear friend of mine, and I wish very much you would invite him to pay a visit here."