"I see you are a literal person," observed Miss Duncombe. "I must be careful. What shall we talk about? What interests you?"
Philip pondered.
"Machinery," he said at last.
"How pathetic!" was Babs's response. "What else? Do you tango?"
"No."
"Do you skate?"
"Yes."
"I have never seen you at Princes."
"I have never been there," confessed Philip, feeling very much ashamed of himself.
"How tragic! Where do you go? Is there another place?"