"My dear, you've pleased them all and I've just fallen in love with you. I'm going to have you at the Woman's Club. You must come and see me. Come often, won't you?"
"I shall be glad to," Rose said simply, but her face was flushed and her eyes shining with joy.
Owen was outside in the hall alone.
"Didn't Mary come too?"
"No, she concluded it would look awkward if she came and stood outside the door."
They walked along side by side. Taylor considered it an affectation to offer a strong young woman his arm, except at critical passages of the street.
"Did you have a good time?"
"O splendid!" she said, the joy of her social success upon her. "It was lovely! I never met such fine people. Everything was so full of fun and they were intellectual, too. Dr. Herrick is wonderful! Mr. Mason, too."
"What Mr. Mason?"
"Warren Mason, I think they call him."