"Hanged if I know who to write to," he mused. "I never had the habit. I suppose it's done regularly—in society."
"It is considered quite important to attend promptly to all correspondence," said Mary. That was a safe generalization, she thought, applicable to society as well as business.
Bill began fumbling in a coat-pocket and eventually drew forth some papers.
"I haven't had a letter in a week," he said. "You see, what I get mostly is bills. Aunt Caroline attends to those. But here's a letter I got last week; we could begin on that, I suppose."
He drew it out of the envelope and then shook his head.
"Too late, I'm afraid. The party was last night. I had another date and didn't go."
"But you sent them word, of course."
"No, indeed; never bothered about it."
Mary looked disturbed; her sense of order was really offended.
"I think that was very wrong," she observed.