"Oh, I should refuse. I've a telephone engagement between five and six."
"But we never serve dinner till seven," replied Patty, buttoning her coat austerely.
Kate laughed merrily.
"If you will ask me over to dinner," said Warrington, "I'll tell you a secret, a real dark political secret, one that I've promised not to tell to a soul."
The two women stopped abruptly. The cast was irresistible, and they had to rise to it.
Yet Patty murmured: "How like a woman he is!"
"It simply shows what high regard I have for your discretion. It is a secret some men would pay a comfortable fortune to learn."
"Will you please come and dine with us this evening?" asked Patty.
"I shall be very happy."
"And now, the secret," said Mrs. Jack.