“I’ll make a bet with you, Wally, that Madame Hecuba Brendon won’t put it through.”
“Put what through?”
“Marry Jerry Paxton to the lady with the short lip.”
Wally laughed.
“You don’t miss anything, do you?”
“I do not.”
“You’re too young to notice such things.”
“Lord! but parents are a bore!” quoth Isabelle at that.
For the most part she kept out of their way those first days. Max noticed it, and warned Wally that she was probably cooking up some mischief to explode on them.