This page has been validated.
I ENLIST A MINION'S SERVICES
gestive, yet withal courteous and respectful, I could only find a hackneyed, unenthusiastic phrase which I should have used in accepting an invitation from a bore to lunch with him at his club.
"Of course you understand my friends must be my father's friends."
"Yes," I said gloomily, "I suppose so."
"So you must not think me rude if I—I"
"Cut me," said I with masculine coarseness.
"Don't seem to see you," said she, with feminine delicacy, "when I am with my father. You will understand?"
"I shall understand."
"You see"—she smiled—"you are under arrest, as Tom says."
Tom!
"I see," I said.
"Good-by."
"Good-by."
147
