"Dorothy," he said, "do you want to go to that banquet?"
"No, but I've got to. I must go through with it. I swore I'd do the thing completely or not at all."
"It isn't till nine. We've three whole hours before we need start."
"What are you going to do with me?"
"I'm going to take you home first. Then I suppose I shall have to drive you down to that beastly banquet."
"That won't take three and a half hours. It's a heavenly morning. Can't we do something with it?"
"What would you like to do?"
"I'd like to stop at the nearest coffee-stall. I'm hungry. Then--Are you frightfully sleepy?"
"Me? Oh, Lord, no."
"Then let's go off somewhere into the country." They went.