“Suppose the feet of others had got the punishment?”
“I wasn’t old enough to reason that out then.”
“Some people would have been sore enough and revengeful enough not to care if they had. I have known such instances, but I can understand that your plate would never be the same to you with a part of it gone. I don’t like anything incomplete myself.”
“Give me the whole day—I want you all the time.”
“If you will promise me to learn every piece of music that I ask you to, I will.”
“You haven’t told the Curtises yet that you were coming?”
“No.”
“Well,” her voice was merry, “that’s a bargain.”
Glenn Andrews looked at his watch.
“Great Scott! ten minutes to two. I must go.”