Parker gave a little amused smile. “Whom do you mean, you or your mother?”
Agnes smiled, too. “So you do count on our being your neighbors in spite of what Hump Muirhead says?”
“I certainly do.”
“But you must not take any risks on our account,” Mrs. Kennedy was quick to say.
“But he saved Honey’s life,” Agnes remarked.
“You mean Jimmy O’Neill saved Honey.”
“But you saved both. Doesn’t Hump Muirhead know that?”
“What a disrespectful way to speak of your uncle,” laughed Parker. “What will your mother think?”
“That I’ve neither wish nor right to show him the respect he does not command. But doesn’t he know about your saving Honey?” she persisted.
“No, if you call it that.”