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Tell me how you like Maple Green. Is it your first visit here?"
"Yes, my first," he answered. "I like it very much. I especially like the outskirts of it—this spot, for instance."
"Have you met the—the inhabitants?"
"Some; the Misses Ruggles I have had the pleasure of meeting."
She smiled above her brush.
"Aren't they delightful?" she asked.
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"Terrifying, I call them. Hunter
took me around there the other day
for afternoon tea. They asked me
what I thought of Wagner's 'The
Simple Life.' I said I didn't remember
of having heard it, but didn't care
for Wagner—pronouncing it with a
waggish W for politeness—very much.
I thought they looked pained and sur-
