"And you didn't mean that you'd simply look over the fence and then come away?"
"No, I mean that I'll go and be a fool with the rest of them."
"That's all I ask. Here's an invitation. You'll have to show it at the gate."
"Why don't you go, Warren?"
"It would be absurd."
"Why? Your clothes might be worse."
"There are a good many observations that don't apply to clothes. The entertainment is to be given by the Hon. Mr. S. Boyd. One time, with great reluctance, he lifted a grinding heel off my head. I owe him five dollars."
"And it would be embarrassing to meet him, by invitation, on his own lawn."
"Yes. I'll pay him one of these days, but of course he doesn't know that."
"Probably he doesn't even suspect it," said Lyman.