And only good men do in fact,
What we should think a dirty act.
But Norma did not enjoy a humorous approach to a subject which she had only recently made her own. She withdrew; frowning slightly, and saying that she would try to get a word with him.
"Oh, don't let's wait," said Evie after a few minutes, during which the crowd on the platform increased.
And so Aunt Georgy was led home by the mayor and her small niece without getting a word with the speaker. But she was a determined woman; and though Lisburn was a busy man, between lecturing at his college in the daytime and conferences with mentally maladjusted in Jefferson in the evening and giving a good many spare hours to Norma, a free afternoon was finally found and Norma brought him to tea. Little Evie, who happened to be spending a week or two with her aunt, immediately announced her intention of being out.
"I don't like that man," she said.
Aunt Georgy, always eager for information, inquired why she didn't.
Evie thought a long time, and then said, "Because he invades one's private life."
"Does Norma feel that way?"