Burgess smiled broadly.
“I’m afraid,” he remarked, “that you don’t quite fill the bill; but you’ll do—you’ve got to do!”
He handed her the telegram he had retained in his hand and watched her face as she read:
P. is greatly taken with Floy, and we must give her every chance. Pick up an uninteresting young man and one of the least attractive of the older girls for dinner tonight. This is important Make no mistake.
“Those are my instructions. Can you ever forgive me?”
“With my hair brushed straight back, they say I’m quite homely,” observed Susie sighing.
“I shouldn’t do my worst,” said the banker, “where Nature has been so generous.”
“It seems,” observed Susie meditatively, “that I’m your deliberate choice as a foil for your sister-in-law, by sheer force of my unattractiveness.”
“I’m slightly nearsighted,” replied the banker. “It’s a frightful handicap.”
“I can see that glasses would be unbecoming to you.”