“Don’t be idiotic! Let me tell you, the most desirable ones are merely the ones who most need a little pleasure or entertainment.”
“How can they tell?”
“Oh, I don’t know. Perhaps the ones who are farthest from home and mother,—or, who have been ill,——”
“Or parted from their best girls?”
“Yes, those are the saddest cases, of course!”
“Well, go ahead, I’ll be best girl to ’em.”
“You see, Philip knows the—the——”
“Chaplain?”
“Well, the somebody, who will pick out the boys,—soldiers and sailors both, and I’ve agreed to entertain a few every Monday night, for the present, anyway.”
“You’re a good girl, Patty; you’re all right!”