"Who are invited? None of ours?"
"Kate, I don't know."
"Where did she say she had heard it?"
"She didn't say."
Mrs. Rayner paused one moment, irresolute: "Didn't she tell you anything more about it?"
"Nothing, sister mine. Why should you feel such an interest in what Mrs. Waldron says, if she's such a gossip?" And Miss Travers was evidently having hard work to keep from laughing outright.
"You had better write your letter," said her big sister, and flounced suddenly out of the room and up the stairs.
A moment later she was at the parlor door with a wrap thrown over her shoulders: "If Captain Rayner comes in, tell him I want particularly to see him before he goes out again."
"Where are you going, Kate?"
"Oh, just over to Mrs. Waldron's a moment."