“Nor Aunty Ruth?”
“Least of all!”
“But she does, though.”
“She cannot, Fritz. How? The girls have all said that they wouldn’t worry her about it, and Melville hasn’t—that I’m sure of.”
“She does, though.”
“How, Fritzy?”
“Ho! I guess I won’t. I’m a ‘Mystery,’ too!”
“You midget! You don’t even know what a ‘Mystery’ is!”
“Yes, but I do, Paula and Content, they hunted it out in the dic—dictionary book, and they told me when I asted them. I do know, so!”
“Tell me what it is, and I’ll believe you understood.”