“She doesn’t say so. You can’t tell from what she says anyway. Still, I think she is hovering around the danger point.”
“She’d better watch out. Rob isn’t the kind of a man who will stand for too much thwarting,” I replied.
“If he’d only play up a little bit to some one else, it would bring things to a climax,” said my wife sagely.
“There’s no one else to play up to. The blonde left today because it was so slow here.”
“Maybe some new girl will come tomorrow,” said Silvia, “or there’s that trim little waitress who is waiting her way through college. He gave her a good big tip yesterday. I think I will give him a hint.”
“It wouldn’t help any. He wouldn’t know how to play such a game if you could 173 persuade him to try. He’d probably tell the girl his motive in being attentive to her and then she’d back out. Maybe, after all, Beth doesn’t love him.”
“I think she does,” replied my wife, “because she is getting absent-minded. She let Diogenes go too near the fire. His shoes are burned, his hair singed, and his dress scorched. He woke up when I came in and he was so cross. He acted just the way he does when he is with his brothers.”
