What can I do for you?
was the message; and the reply came back:—
Delighted you are with us.
Private car train twenty-one to-day.
The secretary of Masticator was at the steps of the car and presented me at once to a most lovely girl. At the news she was to serve on the Simplified Spelling Committee with me, my heart bounded, every doubt left me, and I exclaimed:—
"I will spell just as you say."
"Then," she most sweetly returned, "never let us consent to any simplification of kiss." And I counted such answer a very happy omen.
She had come from a woman's college, and her important work on the authorship of Shakespeare's plays had demonstrated, beyond refutation, that the plays had been written by Queen Elizabeth, in collaboration with Sir Walter Raleigh and Lady Jane Grey.
"Shall we be in Harrisburg soon, Mr. Kibosh?" she asked the secretary.
"It will be ten minutes after seven, Miss Appleby."