“Where is your pathetic mute, Millie?”
“Well, I never!” declared the girl, still gazing incredulously up and down the street. “He was here.”
Winnie smiled as she turned from the window.
“Some one has imposed upon you, Millie,” she said; “and you did a very careless thing when you left such a stranger at an open window.”
And a certain listener near by added to this exordium a mental amen.
“He might have entered—” continued Winnie.
“Oh, my!”
“And robbed the house.”
“Bless me; I never thought of that!”
“Try and be more thoughtful in future, Millie. Close the window and let us go; ah!”