“Don’t talk nonsense, I’m in earnest. You’re seriously fond of Mona, aren’t you, Roger?”
“Yes, I am; or rather, I was until that cad came between us.”
“He isn’t exactly a cad,” said Patty, judicially. “I do believe in being fair, and while the man hasn’t all the culture in the world, he is kind-hearted and——”
“And awfully good to his mother, let us hope,” and Roger smiled, a little sourly. “Now, Patty girl, you’d better keep your pretty little fingers out of this pie. It isn’t like you to interfere in other people’s affairs, and I’d rather you wouldn’t.”
“Oh, fiddle-de-fudge, Roger! I’m not interfering, and it is my affair. Mona is my affair, and so are you; and now your Aunt Patty is going to bring about a reconciliation.”
“Not on my part,” declared Roger, stoutly;