"I do wish Aunt Kezia were going out to-night."
Denis pretended to feel faint.
"You, Molly? You, the patent softener of a relative's hard heart?"
Molly blushed and glanced abashed at Ted's amused face.
"Well, for her own sake, anyway," she protested, and dropped her eyes with a giggle over her hypocrisy.
"Ted," Nell said, "here's a penny."
"Thanks awfully."
He took it and dropped it into his pocket.
"It may come in useful some day. One never knows."
"Well?" she said.