have known I would go, since I had not decided till the last minute?
“Never mind,” said Bertie. “I’ll fix it up with you later. Go on in without us. It’s all right.”
Harry and Patty laughed, and, arm-in-arm, they went into the restaurant. All the time Bertie had kept a hand on my arm. I was too surprised and disappointed to utter a word, and after he had again tucked the rug about me, he said gently:
“I wouldn’t take a sweet little girl like you into such a place, and that Patty isn’t a fit person for you to associate with.”
I said:
“You must think I’m awfully good.”
I was disappointed and hungry.
“Yes, I do think so,” he said gravely.
“Well, I’m not,” I declared. “Besides, I’m going to be an actress, and actresses can do lots of things other people get shocked about. Mr. Davis says they are privileged to be unconventional.”
“You, an actress!” he exclaimed. He said the word as if it were something disgraceful, like Ada might have said it.