"Yes, Aunt Adelaide and the Kenerleys have gone."
"Didn't she go with them?"
"Why, she MUST have done so. Well, good-bye, dear old Bill, come and see us again next summer, won't you?"
"I will so!" and Bill shook Mona's hand mightily, as an earnest of his words.
"And I'm sorry to go off and leave you, but you go to the station in a few minutes, don't you?"
"Yes, and Barker will look after me. Run along, Mona, I'll write you in a day or two, and tell you how much I've enjoyed my visit here."
Some further cordial good-byes were said, and then the car started off with Daisy, Mona, and Cromer to the Country Club. Farnsworth flew back to the pantry.
"Hello," he said, as he drew up the dumb-waiter, "you WILL evade me, will you, you little bunch of perversity?"
Patty, who was still laughing at his daring deed, said, "Have they all gone?" "They sure have! You and I are here all alone."
"Oh, Bill!" and Patty's lip quivered a little. "How COULD you do that?
What SHALL I do?"