"Everybody was there—except you."
"And Daisy? Were you there, Daisy?"
"Certainly," Mrs. Sandford responded. "Everybody else could have been better missed."
"I did not know you went there," said Preston, in something so like a growl that Mrs. Sandford lifted her eyes to look at him.
"I do not wonder you are jealous," she said composedly.
"Jealous!" said Preston, with growl the second.
"You had more reason than you knew."
Preston grumbled something about the hops being "stupid places." I kept carefully still.
"Daisy, did you go?"