"I should like to; and there are some ladies——" A sudden thought struck him, and he stopped. He looked so pointedly at Janet that, to her intense annoyance, she felt herself blushing. She made the grave mistake of changing the conversation abruptly.
"How did you like the Smiths?"
"Oh, pretty well."
"I should have thought you would have got on tremendously well together."
"Oh, I don't know. I think I like people to be one thing or the other, and the Smiths are halfway housers."
"You're very ungrateful."
"Oh, they only asked us as a demonstration," said Dale, who had some acuteness.
Janet laughed, but her companion was moodily prodding the ground with his stick as he walked along.
They reached a cottage where she had a visit to pay, and she bade him good-by.