`` Dad , it 's a blessing to see you just the same . I 'm a little dizzy with all these changes . Bertha grown up and Leo within an inch of being married ! To Alice Graham at that , whom I ca n't think of yet as anything else than the long-legged , black-eyed imp of mischief she was when a kiddy . To tell you the truth , Dad , I do n't feel in a mood for going to a wedding at Wish-ton-wish tonight . I 'm sure you do n't either . You 've always hated fusses . Ca n't we shirk it ? '' They smiled at each other with chummy remembrance of many a family festival they had `` shirked '' together in the old days . But Mr. Grant shook his head . `` Not this time , sonny . There are some things a decent man ca n't shirk and one of them is his own boy 's wedding . It 's a nuisance , but I must go through with it . You 'll understand how it is when you 're a family man yourself . By the way , why are n't you a family man by this time ? Why have n't I been put to the bother and inconvenience of attending your wedding before now , son ? '' Selwyn laughed , with a little vibrant note of bitterness in the laughter , which the father 's quick ears detected . `` I 've been too busy with law books , Dad , to find me a wife . '' Mr. Grant shook his bushy grey head . `` That 's not the real reason , son .
The world has a wife for every man ; if he has n't found her XXXXX the time he 's thirty-five , there 's some real reason for it .
To at before by days in kiddy of with within