“I promised not to,—promised somebody to whom I always keep my promises.”
“Ah, a man?”
“Yes, a man, though I usually keep my promises to women, too.”
“A bad promise is better broken than kept,” Breen said, laughingly; “come on in,—the air’s fine!”
“Fie, fie, Lieutenant, to tempt me to break my promises! I’m ashamed of you!”
“But you’d like to go?”
“If I hadn’t promised—yes.”
“Oh, all right, I won’t tempt you. I know just how you feel. We all have to keep promises sometimes that we wish we didn’t.”
The jolly young man continued to keep her interested in the sights and at last he said, “Suppose you just get in here, and see how it seems, I don’t mean to fly, you know, but just have the experience of getting in and out again.”
Patty consented to this, and took her seat as directed.