“I didn’t!”
“I didn’t! Oh, Patty, I see it,—it has just dawned on me! We sent duplicates! Where’d you get yours?”
“At a bazaar thing——”
“Yes, I see; and I got mine from—well,—I got it.”
“Where?”
“No matter now. I bought it and paid for it; and they chanced to be just alike! Puzzle it out at your leisure. Now, Posy-face, I’m coming to New York just as soon as I can manage it, but it may be a week or so,—I hope not, I hope to get there in a couple of days, but all I can say is, I’ll do the best I can, and you begin to get ready for that May affair.”
“Not May, Bill—June!”
“Oh, why? why not May? Well, wait till I see you, and perhaps I can persuade you to say May.”
“Well, we’ll see, but I refuse to decide it over a telephone! Nobody ever did!”
“As if that mattered! Well, you get busy with your preparations, and we’ll see——”