"It was such luck that my wire found you," she beamed on him.
"I tried to put him in the hack, Jane, but he would walk," said Jerry.
"Of course I would walk. What a charming place," he added.
"We love it," said Jane. "Ah, here's Bobs."
Bobs strode up the road, bare-headed, swinging a stick, like a boy.
"Well met, Atalanta," he called, going to meet her.
"Hurrah for you! Did you meet the invitation on the way out?"
"I started before I read it through," he laughed. "It's good to see you looking so well."
"It's air, and Jane; mostly Jane. Long ago Jerry made an epigram about her. He said: 'Jane can mend anything from a leak in a pipe to a broken heart.'"
They all laughed and Jane turned to Jerry saying curiously: