"All right," nodded Carrie. "Then I'll go, too."
Dudley looked down at the girl with an impatient frown on his face.
"Supposing we don't want you?" said he, dryly.
"You will," she answered briefly, without even looking at him.
Dudley considered for a moment, and then said shortly:
"All right. We may as well keep an eye on you."
Carrie laughed, and then remained silent. As for Max, he was struck with an odd likeness between the girl's dry, short manner of speaking to Dudley and Dudley's manner of speaking to her.
At that moment there was an interruption in the shape of the waiter from a neighboring restaurant, who came in with the dinner Dudley had ordered for himself.
"I shan't want it now," said Dudley, as the man put down the covered dishes on the table.
"Why, surely you're not in such a hurry that you haven't time to dine?" said Max.