“Sounds good to me,” commented Ted; “when can I meet her?”
“I’ll introduce you soon. They want to meet some of our best people——”
“Of course. That lets me in at once. When will you take me?”
“Tomorrow afternoon. They’re having a small picnic and they asked me to bring two amusing young men.”
“May I go?” asked Lawrence North.
“Young men, I said,” and Mrs Blackwood looked at him calmly. “You are old enough to be Betty Varian’s father!”
“Well, since I’m not, that needn’t prevent my meeting her.”
“So you shall, some time. But I’m to take two tomorrow, and,—what do you think? I said I would bring Rodney Granniss, and Mr Varian said, ‘No, he’d rather I asked some one in his place!’”
“Why, for heaven’s sake?” cried Landon. “Rod’s our star performer.”
“Well, you see, they know him——”