“No, I can’t ask him, I don’t want to cheapen him by making a show of him.”
“Oh! I haven’t that feeling about him. I——”
“I think you would understand him and see the fine qualities. But do you think others would?” Peter mentioned no names, but Leonore understood.
“No,” she said. “You are quite right.”
“You shall meet him some day,” said Peter, “if you wish, but when we can have only people who won’t embarrass or laugh at him.”
“Really, I don’t know whom to select.”
“Perhaps you would like to meet Le Grand?”
“Very much. He is just the man.”
“Then we’ll consider that settled. Are you free for the ninth?”
“Yes. I’m not going out this spring, and mamma and papa haven’t really begun yet, and it’s so late in the season that I’m sure we are free.”