“No; not even within sight of it. Being engaged, and always having to go out with the same pal, would bore me to tears.”
“I see.” There was a note of satisfaction in his voice. In the brighter lights he had observed that the warm ulster clung to a very shapely figure, and covered a pair of fine shoulders, and even if she was not pretty, for he could not be quite sure on the point, she was certainly very attractive, and had a delightfully engaging smile.
“I wonder if there is room for another in the ranks.”
Something a little condescending in the way he made the suggestion nettled Hal.
“Aren’t you a rather old?” she asked.
Again his ready laugh rang out.
“I’ll give frankness for frankness. I am forty-eight.”
“Goodness!… and I am twenty-five.”
“Is that all? Then allow me to say you are a remarkably clever young woman.”
“A good many breadwinners are; they have to be. Some of them are too clever even for Cabinet Ministers,” and she chuckled joyfully.