"But we've got our cards all right now," said Potter. "Why do you want to queer the show?"
"I intend to show Mrs. Van der Windt what I can do," she answered.
"Suppose a lot of the people you want refuse you, so that they can be fresh for the ball?" Sally suggested.
"They won't," said Mrs. Ess Kay, "when they have seen what I shall say on the invitations."
Then she got up, went to her desk, took out some engraved cards which she had ready, all but filling in the date, and wrote something in one corner. "What do you think of that?" she asked Sally.
Sally took the card, looked at it for a minute, laughed, and passed it on to me, while Potter came and stared over my shoulder.
She had written across the card: "Fancy Dress, with Masks. A Visit to the Maze; and Aladdin's Cave."
"Do you think that will bring them?" she enquired, with a triumphant and mysterious air.
"I think it will," said Sally.
"You know your business, old girl," remarked Potter.