"The Stanley Cheevers!" said Flanders with some surprise. "Are we going to gamble?"
"You believe in that scandal about bridge?"
"Certainly not," said Flanders, smiling. "You see I was present. The Cheevers play a good game, a well united game, and have an unusual system of makes. By-the-way, it's Jackson who is very attentive to Mrs. Cheever, isn't it?"
"Quite right."
"What a charming party," said Flanders flippantly. "And where does Maude Lille come in?"
"Don't joke. She is in a desperate way," said Mrs. Kildair, with a little sadness in her eyes.
"And Harris?"
"Oh, he is to make the salad and cream the chicken."
"Ah, I see the whole party. I, of course, am to add the element of respectability."
"Of what?"