“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!”