"Happy to have that pleasure!" said Lawson stiffly, remembering Susan's words.
"You must come and see us!" with a backward glance to her guests.
"I shall. I have just been out to your house."
"You have?"
"I met your father at the post-office; he told me you were home!"
"And forgot I was going to the station?"
"He did not mention it, but," quickly as if in defence of his absent friend, "I left him waiting for you at home."
"We will hurry then; good-by!"
"Good-by!" He did not add that the professor had insisted on his return, and that he had accepted, but he carried with him a happy consciousness of the fact.
Frances had the same cordial invitation for Lawson, when they parted. She knew well that the young city women visiting the University in the middle of the term expected a good time, and a good time chiefly along one line. So while the professor was welcoming them in the hall, she lingered on the doorstep.