“Jolly, isn’t it?” laughed Nellie. “Jane, why weren’t you hunting this morning?”
“Oh, Coley didn’t want to,” she said quickly, her rapier flashing in two directions.
Nellie Pennington understood.
“You are getting heavy, aren’t you, Coley?” she asked sweetly. “Didn’t Honora have anything up to your weight?”
“I didn’t ask,” returned Van Duyn peevishly. “Dreadful bore, huntin’——”
“Hear the man!” exclaimed Nellie. “You’re spoiling him, Jane.”
“There’s no hope for any creature who doesn’t like hunting,” put in Nina in disgust.
“Except the fox,” said Gallatin.
“And there’s not much for him when Nina rides,” laughed Larry Kane. “Lord, Nina, but you did take some chances to-day.”
“I believe in taking chances,” put in Miss Jaffray calmly. “The element of uncertainty is all that makes life worth while. Nothing in the world is so deadly as the obvious.”