"Often?"
"As often as it's advisable," he said pleasantly. "I want you to make friends at school; I want you to have lots of them. A bachelor girl has got to have 'em.... It's on your account and theirs that I don't intend to have anybody make any mistake about me.... Therefore, I'll come to see you when you've a friend or two present. It's fairer to you. Now do you understand me, Dolly?"
"Yes."
"Is it agreeable?"
"Y-es." And, flushing: "But I did not mistake you, Louis; and there is no reason not to come, even if I am alone."
He laughed, lighted a cigarette, and stroked the kitten.
"It's an amusing experiment, anyway," he said.
"Have you never tried it before?"
"Oh, yes, several times."
"Were the several times successes?"