"... a bit frightening?" Tregarron finished for her.
"No!"
"Of course you're not afraid," Tregarron purred. "You're our beautiful, clever Caddy, who can do anything she wants with any man, and without whose...."
"Look, Jan, this is different—" she began agitatedly.
"... and without whose services we'd have got exactly nowhere. Clever, subtle Caddy, whose most charming attainment in the ever-appreciative eyes of Papa Jan is her ability to handle every man in the neatest way imaginable and without a trace of real feeling. Kitty Kaddy, who...."
"Very well," she said with a sigh. "I'll do it."
"Of course you will," Jan said, drawing her hands back to his forehead. "And you'll begin right away by getting into your nicest sugar-and-cream war clothes. You and I are going to be the welcoming committee when that ape arrives this afternoon."
"But what about Jorj? He'll want to see Willard."
"That'll be taken care of," Jan assured her.
"And what about the other dozen rocket physicists Jorj asked to come?"