"Why, pray?"
"You are safe I know, Mr. Waycott, and I want you both to know."
"Both?" asked Lewis.
"Yes, you and Maud of course, you will both be so pleased—if it succeeds."
"What is this surprise, Toney? I am a little nervous," and Lewis laughed.
"It's a romance—about Jeanie. You know, Mr. Waycott, that she loved someone once, but she chucked him up because his father kept a store somewhere."
"Oh! Jeanie's romance! You don't mean to say, Toney——"
"Yes, I do. I've got him, and no one knows but you two."
"Knows what?
"Don't laugh please. He's coming, and all the musical people will be in a seventh heaven, and then Jeanie will come in looking beautiful and sad—and he will see her and she will see him—and——"