"Invite somebody—can't I bring Bob and Eleanor over some day soon to lunch?"
"Yes,'" said Mary Frances, "if Aunt Maria——"
"Oh, by the way," said Billy "I 'most forgot! Aunt Maria had word her brother is sick at Upland, and she went to see him this morning, and can't possibly be back in time for breakfast. I guessed we'd make out O. K. I told her—I was thinking of our lunches, you know."
"Billy—really?" asked Mary Frances, "but I'm sorry for Aunt Maria's brother."
