SIR JOSEPH. Captain Corcoran, I am much disappointed with your daughter. In

fact,don’t think she will do.

CAPT. She won’t do, Sir Joseph!

SIR JOSEPH. I’m afraid not. The fact is, that although I have urged my suit with as

much eloquence as is consistent with an official utterance, I have done so hitherto without

success. How do you account for this?

CAPT. Really, Sir Joseph, I hardly know. Josephine is of course sensible of your

condescension.

SIR JOSEPH. She naturally would be.

CAPT. But perhaps your exalted rank dazzles her.

SIR JOSEPH. You think it does?

CAPT. I can hardly say; but she is a modest girl, and her social position is far below

your own. It may be that she feels she is not worthy of you.

SIR JOSEPH. That is really a very sensible suggestion, and displays more knowledge

of