Will you do me the honour to go to supper with me?"
Aunt Adelaide looked at the towering figure in its regal velvet
robes.
"I oughtn't to," she said, with a little laugh, "but I can't
resist the temptation. So I will! The idea of MY going with the
king of the whole show!"
"Excepting Miss Fairfield, there's no one I'd rather have," said
Big Bill, honestly, and so Father Neptune strode majestically to
his seat at the head of the table, and at his right sat primly,
fluttering Aunt Adelaide, instead of the witching sprite he had
expected to place there.
Patty was really glad, for she didn't wish to appear too
exclusively with Farnsworth, and yet she was a little
disappointed, too, for as the Spirit of the Sea, her place was by
Father Neptune.
But Captain Sayre made himself very entertaining, and as Jack
Pennington was on her other side, she soon forgot all about Little
Billee, and gave herself up to the fun of the moment.
"I well remember your beautiful dancing," said the captain. "Will
you give me some waltzes?"
"I don't give them plurally," said Patty, smiling at him. "I'll
give you one, perhaps; a half one, anyway."
"Not enough!" said Captain Sayre, decidedly. "I must have more
than that, by fair means--or otherwise.
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