"I'm glad of that," she said gravely.
"Are you? Why? You like him?"
"I adore him. I would have thought that you two would be friends," she added thoughtfully.
"Now I wonder why you should think that?" he smiled, but instead of awaiting her reply he set out for the food.
Pat wondered, too. By the time he had returned, however, her restless mind had taken another turn. "How long have you known us?" she asked.
"Us?"
"The Fentriss girls. We're us."
"Ah? Some two months or more."
"And you're almost one of the family."
"How do you arrive at that flattering conclusion?"