"I think she'd laugh."
"Dad wouldn't."
"Dad's old. Mona's one of our kind. She's as modern as jazz."
"Dad may be old but it hasn't slowed him up so much, yet. He was the life of the party."
"Oh, Dad's all right. I'm for him, myself. But he's all for Pat. There might be fireworks if he knew she was starting in this early."
"There were never any about Mona."
"Meaning?"
"Well, Sid Rathbone. And Tom Merrill. And a few others."
"She doesn't interfere with his little amusements, either, if you come to that. Have you noticed anything about her lately?"
"Yes. She looks like a ghost in the mornings."