William Dean Howells 
Out Of The Question 

‘Out of the Question’ is an amusing trifle, with just a thread of a plot, about the love of a young society girl for a brave young fellow without any social position other than his brains has gained him; the idea of marriage with him is scouted by herself and friends at first as quite ‘out of the question.’ The charm of the story is in the piquant way in which it is handled, and in its bright, clever dialogue.