"Worse than ever."
Mr. Keith smiled and stood up.
"Then I have a suggestion to make," he said. "When is this party to be?"
"A week from yesterday," Phyllis told him.
"Then don't make any plans until you hear from me. I will think hard all day, and to-morrow sometime I will call you up, and now I must go and find Don. I promised to watch him sail his boat." He lifted his silk hat and walked away, humming a little tune.
"I like him, ever so much," Janet said as she watched him.
"I adore him!" Phyllis exclaimed. "He's a perfect darling, but then he's Don's father, so he'd have to be."
The promised 'phone message did not come until Monday evening after dinner. The girls made up their minds that he had forgotten all about them, and had started new plans.
Phyllis answered the 'phone.
"Am I speaking to the Page twins!" a voice asked.