“Nope; you can’t rub it off! It’s ingrained. Come now, what’s up?”
“Well, I am bothered. Philip, how do war secrets leak out?”
“How do they keep from it, you mean! Why, Patty, the end and aim of a majority of our citizens seems to be to chatter and make trouble thereby. What’s exploded now?”
“Nothing that I can tell you,—only,—well,—never mind.”
“You transparent little goose! Have you been and went and told something Farnsworth told you not to?”
“No, I haven’t! But he thought I did, so it’s just as bad!”
“No; not just as bad,—but, bad. What was it?”
“Never mind, but he thought I opened a sealed envelope and it’s still sealed.”
“Has it been out of your possession?”
“Not for a minute!”