“What a good idea—to have just one dish and coffee.”

“That’s what we think; and it’s cheap.”

“Well, I couldn’t have had any dinner at all only I’m cadging dinner with you to-morrow.”

“What would you have done?”

“An egg, at an A.B.C.”

“How fond you are of A.B.C’s.”

“I love them.”

“What is it that you love about them.”

“Chiefly I think their dowdiness. The food is honest; not showy, and they are so blissfully dowdy.”

Both girls laughed.