"Five! I never heard of such an hour for church, did you, Colonel?"
"Most certainly, sir!" His affirmation suggested a long personal acquaintance with such matters. "They always begin at five!"
Jane gave him a quick, twinkling glance, but only added:
"I thought the vesper service might be cooler, and a pleasanter drive. We ought to start a little after four, don't you think so? And we'll take Bip, and Dale."
"I wouldn't stop there," Brent moodily suggested.
"I think that will be enough for one day," she laughed. "They're the principal ones whom—not who ought to go, you understand, but whom I want to go."
"But Bip is too young," he protested.
"'Suffer the little children—'" she said prettily.
"He'll go to sleep!"
"Then you may hold him."