Betty only smiled as she hopped up and ran to the front hall. “Yes, Carolyn?”
“Betty, Peggy called up last night and she is going to join and is crazy to have me do it!”
“Well, Carolyn, why not, if you want to?”
“I told old Peggy that I was trying to make up my mind but I didn’t mention you at all. I thought you’d rather not. She did, though, and said they wanted to have you. Lucia, too, had asked them if they had asked you, with the idea that it would be a lot more attractive to her if they did!”
“That was very nice of Lucia.”
“Well, Betty—have you decided?”
“Yes, Carolyn.”
“That doesn’t sound as if you were going to do it. If I know you, you would have said something enthusiastic about Peggy and Lucia. Dare I ask you what you have decided?”
Betty’s little chuckle went over the wires to Carolyn.
“I am putting off telling you till the last minute, you see, because of what you are saying about Peggy and Lucia and how you may feel yourself about it. Please don’t be influenced by what I do or don’t do. That sounds conceited, doesn’t it? But really I’m not a bit about it. You just consulted me and seemed to care what I thought about it, you know!”