“Oh!” exclaimed the former, with a gesture of delight, “doesn’t it look simply beautiful? I never thought you boys could make it so quickly.”
“You’ve got Jimmy to thank for that,” said Bob. “I never saw him work so hard in his life before. It was easy to see that he was thinking of you and Ruth all the time, from the way he put his heart into it.”
“I didn’t anything of the kind,” said the embarrassed Jimmy. “I never thought of them once, even.”
“What a dreadful thing to say,” laughed Ruth. “I didn’t know you hated girls, Jimmy.”
“Who said I hated ’em?” demanded Jimmy, getting as red as a beet. “I—I——”
“Love them,” Joe finished for him. “Is that what you are trying to say, Jimmy?”
“Say, who asked you to butt in?” inquired Jimmy, desperately. “Everybody is trying to tell me what I mean, until I don’t know which is right myself.”
“Never mind,” said Edna, coming to the rescue of the floundering youth. “We are grateful to you for working so hard for us, anyway.”
“Oh, that’s all right,” mumbled Jimmy. “If it works all right, we won’t worry about the labor we put into it.”
“But don’t you expect it to work?” asked Edna, teasingly.