He looked across the lawn at the Conner house and said, “You really mean you intend to go?”
Certainly. I’m in Henry Conner’s sector.”
He laughed a long time. “And I’ve invited you to the club!”
“I know. But this is important. The Transcript was perfectly beastly, this morning and…” she broke off. There was a pause and she said, “I’m sorry.”
That made him laugh even more, and Nora could see the dark young woman was relieved. The man said, “That’s Mother’s doing. She was trapped downtown last night. Brother!
Did she ever boil, simmer, curdle and take fire!”
“She has a right to her opinion, but I don’t agree—”
The man took Lenore by the shoulder and shook her gently, so that her dark hair swung and her worried expression faded. “I certainly am glad I went shopping today. Ye gods! Imagine you being around town—and me not. knowing it! How long…?”
“I graduated over a year ago, Kit,” she said.
From behind the barbecue pit and sundry rose bushes Nora reflected that his name, anyhow, was Kit, like First Aid Kit.