"Anything very surprising about that?" laughed David.
"Why, the idea! He couldn't!"
"No, he couldn't, but she could."
"I have thought of that," assented Mrs. Dudley. "I cannot account for her actions in any other way."
"It's so funny!" giggled Polly. "And she probably knows he is engaged to Blanche Puddicombe!"
"That is what stumps me!" exclaimed David. "Such a girl!"
"They say she has a fortune in her own name," put in Mrs. Dudley.
"Fortune!" scorned the boy. "I wouldn't marry her if she would give me a hundred million!"
Mrs. Dudley laughed.
"She'd be better than Miss Sniffen," said Polly.