Skippy apportioned the compliment to his manly air and the magnificent lines of the dress suit.
"No, I'm Yale. That is I'm preparing," he said carelessly, and hoping that Snorky wasn't listening he added: "Family didn't want me to go in too young, you know."
"Oh yes, I know," said Miss Barrons with an appreciative glance at his precocious brow. "I think that's much better too. You don't have half as good a time if you go to college too young."
"Eighteen's about right," said Skippy in a more mature manner.
The subject being exhausted Skippy counted up the forks while his companion, to appear at ease, asked for the salt to put in her soup.
"Do you know Jim Fisher?" she said suddenly. "He's going to Yale next year."
Skippy did not know Jim Fisher.
"I wonder if you know a perfectly dandy girl?"
"Who's that?"
"Alice Parks."