Miss Minerva nodded. "You never met him, did you, Dan? Well, you will, shortly. And he certainly won't approve of you."
"Why not?" Dan Winterslip bristled.
"Because he's proper. He's a dear boy, but oh, so proper. This journey is going to be a great cross for him. He'll start disapproving as soon as he passes Albany, and think of the long weary miles of disapproval he'll have to endure after that."
"Oh, I don't know. He's a Winterslip, isn't he?"
"He is. But the gypsy strain missed him completely. He's all Puritan."
(from The House Without a Key, by Earl Derr Biggers)
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