“Then that’s all right. I say, Matson, can’t you take my sister in? I’ve just had a ’phone message about some of dad’s business that brought me up here. I’ve got to go see a man, and if you’ll take Mabel in——”
“I shall be delighted.”
“How long will you be, Reggie?”
“Oh, not long, Sis. But if I see Jenkinson to-night it will save us time to-morrow.”
“Oh, all right. But if I let you off now you’ll have to take me to the ball game to-morrow.”
“I will—if it doesn’t rain.”
“And you’ll be back in time for the theatre?”
“Surely. I’ll run along now. It’s awfully good of you, Matson, to take——”
“Not at all!” interrupted Joe. The pleasure was all his, he felt.