"Grandpa can do just anything," she declared.
Mr. Evringham regarded her musingly. "I know only one story," he said at last, "and not very far into that one."
"You don't have to know far," returned Julia encouragingly, "for Harry has to begin whenever you say so."
"Indeed!" put in her husband. "I pity you if you have to listen to me."
"It's my birthday, you know, grandpa," urged Jewel.
"So I've understood," returned the broker. "Well, just wait a minute till I hitch up Pegasus."
"Great Scott!" exclaimed his son. "You aren't in earnest, Julia? You don't expect me to do anything like that right off the bat!"
"Certainly, I do," she replied, laughing.
"Oh, see here, I have an engagement. We're one, you know, and when it comes to authorship, you're the one."
"Hush," returned Julia, "you're disturbing father's muse."