"Concerning us?"
"Certainly.... As it is, I believe I'm more than half in love with you, anyway, Christine."
She blushed again, looking at him with her pretty, frank, brown eyes; and they both laughed happily.
"It's the first time in all my life that I've been of any use in the world," he said.
"You did ask father?" she inquired, still charmingly flushed; "didn't you?"
"I certainly did. He said: 'Is young Inwood such a particular friend of yours?' I said: 'He is!' He said: 'All right; ask my wife.' So I asked your mother, and she said: 'Oh, please, Mr. Edgerton, invite anybody you wish to.' So I wrote Billy Inwood, and your bully little mother inclosed my letter in the sweetest note of her own; and now he has telegraphed——"
"Telegraphed?"
"I've just received the message."
He fished it out of his coat pocket, and handed it to her, and she read:
"On my way!