'But wait, Hump! She was excited about it. And she seemed to think it was up to me, somehow. I couldn't get rid of her.'

'Well, of course——'

'She made me promise to see her last night——'

'But—wait a minute!—last night——'

'This was the first part of the evening. She made me promise to rent Murphy's tandem——'

'Hm! you were going it!'

'And we rode up the shore a ways.'

'Then you didn't hear all of the musicale?'

'No. She wanted to go up to Hoffmann's Garden. So we went there——'

'But good lord, that's six miles—-'