"Yes."
"I've been awfully good—about that. I haven't, at all. At least, nothing serious."
"I am flattered to have been so good an influence," he remarked with his faintly ironic inflection. Constance would not have caught it. But little Pat's ear was truer.
"Don't josh me about it," she protested. "Nobody's ever tried to be a good influence for me really. Except Bobs. And he doesn't know."
"Why doesn't he know?"
"Too old. But," she added in afterthought, "you're old, too, aren't you!"
"Terribly."
"I'd almost forgotten that," she said thoughtfully.