“I’ll not promise to do that, unless you insist upon it. And it isn’t done as much as formerly, I believe.”
“Why are you two sparring so?” asked Nan, laughingly. “Aren’t you good friends, at the moment?”
“As good as anybody can be, when the lady he admires has been and went and gone and engaged herself to somebody else,” and Philip frowned darkly.
“Oho, so that’s it! Well, our young friend here is certainly engaged to her big Western suitor. Now, shall I look out for a sweet little girl for you?”
“No, thank you, Ma’am, it’s a case of Patty or nobody, where I’m concerned. But the game’s never out till it’s played out. Patty and Farnsworth may one or both of them yet change their minds.”
“You wouldn’t think so, if you saw them together,” laughed Nan. “They’re just about the most engagedest pair you ever saw!”
“Oh, come now,” said Patty, “we don’t show our affection in public, Nan!”
“Well, you have great difficulty not to do so. It’s all you can do, to hide it successfully.”
“And why should they?” asked Phil. “There’s no law against that sort of thing, is there?”
“Tell me more about your aviating,” said Patty, by way of changing the subject. “What do you do to learn?”