CHAPTER X
NEVER DID RUN SMOOTH
“ HAVE you any idea what it is that’s keeping Mr. Bagsbury?” Alice asked of Jack. She had been expecting him every moment while they were at dinner, and the tone of her question betrayed nervousness.
“ No,” said Jack, abstractedly, then, rousing himself: “no, he just told me I’d better come out here to dinner and tell you not to wait for him as he would be late. He said it might be eight o’clock before he could get home.”
“ Then you had two invitations,” said d**k.
“ That’s why I ate two dinners.”
Alice rose. “ I promised Martha to help her with her lessons. I’ll leave you to entertain each other until John comes back.”
“ You must be blue,” d**k remarked when she was gone. “ You never make jokes like that except when you’re blue. Oh, I know, you want t
