"Better invite red-head, not me, if you won't listen to what I say, and pretend you never received my letters."
"Thank you for the good advice. I hope he'll accept my invitation, because he is always pleasant and agreeable," she retorted.
NINETEEN.
AN OPPORTUNELY INOPPORTUNE DOUCHE.
It was just as well that "Dora" Eweword had been too chopfallen to come in, for we found the place in what grandma termed "a uproar."
As we had gone out Mrs Bray had arrived to relate her speculations in regard to Mrs Rooney-Molyneux. Mrs Bray did not live a great distance from the latter's cottage, and as she had not seen her about during the day, wondered had she come to her travail.
Andrew decided the matter when he came home by relating what he had heard when passing the cottage; and he supplemented the statement by the deplorable information that "the old bloke is up at Jimmeny's tryin' if he can get a free drink."
"I must go to her," said grandma, rising in haste.