“All right, if it is private.”
“Well, I share it with two other fellows and there is a flapper stenographer and I must say lots of people loaf on us.”
“I tell you, let’s go to an early movie,” said Josie. “There is no place on earth so quiet and private as an early movie. How soon do they open up here?”
“One of them makes a specialty of being open all the time with a continuous performance. Let’s go there.”
Before acting on this plan, Ursula was wired to come to Louisville at once.
“She can’t get here until late this afternoon and in the meantime we can snoop around. Ho! for the cinema!” said Josie.
The motion picture theatre was dark and warm. The performance was beginning as the young people entered. They were the only ones on pleasure bent so early in the morning and had the place to themselves, except for two men in the center of the house who were evidently left-overs from the night before and were now peacefully sleeping.
“This is not much of a place, except that they do run a good news reel,” apologized Teddy. “They get the happenings of the world hot off the bat.”
“I dote on the Travelaughs and news reels,” said Josie. “I go to the movies a lot just to be quiet and in the dark and think. I follow the show with half my brain and think with the other half.”
“Well, what do you say to watching the news reel and then talking business through the slapstick comedy that is sure to follow?”