"
"She did? Thank you. Good-bye." And Bill returned to the house,
apparently thinking deeply.
"Hello, Billy Boy, what's the matter?" called Mona, gaily, as he
came up the veranda steps.
"I'm pining for you," returned Bill. "Do shed the light of your
countenance on me for a few blissful moments. You're the most
unattainable hostess I ever house-partied with!"
"All right, I'll walk down to the lower terrace and back with you.
Now, tell me what's on your mind."
"How sympathetic you are, Mona. Well, I will tell you. I'm all
broken up over this Pageant business. I wanted Patty Fairfield on
the float with me, and she won't take the part, and now Daisy has
cabbaged it."
"I know it. But Patty says Guy Martin chose Daisy in preference to
her. And she says it's all right."
"Great jumping Anacondas! She says THAT, does she? And she says
it's all right, does she? Well, it's just about as far from all
right as the North Pole is from the South Pole! Oh--ho! E--hee!
Wow, wow! I perceive a small beam of light breaking in upon this
black cat's pocket of a situation! Mona, will you excuse me while
I go to raise large and elegant ructions among your lady friends?"
"Now, Bill, don't stir up a fuss.
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