“Yes, and a maid. They’re comfortable. I bought their furniture immediately and also the batterie-de-cuisine. It’s only I who slink about like a perplexed cat, from one empty room to another, in search of familiar comforts.... But I bought a sofa to-day.
“It’s a wonderful sofa. It’s here, now. It’s an antique. But I can’t make up my mind how to upholster it.”
“Would you care for a suggestion?”
“Please!”
“Well, I’d have to see it–––”
“I thought you’d say that. Really, Mr. Shotwell, I’d like most awfully to see you, but this place is too uncomfortable. I told you I’d ask you to tea some day.”
“Won’t you let me come down for a few moments this evening–––”
“No!”
“––And pay you a formal little call–––”
“No.... Would you really like to?”