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Mother has made our house a happy hunting-ground, and at this moment Gail and Tiddy and Clarence are putting the Chorus of Peers through its paces. They aren't properly hand-picked. One of 'em squeaks." "They had to pick him, because he was so grand and tall," Joy explained. "He isn't supposed to sing. I suppose he got carried away."
"Ah!" squeaked Lady Barbara, unused to such interjections. "Gone down in what?" said Ipsden, in a loud voice. "Don't bellow in people's ears. The Tisbe, stupid," cried she, screaming at the top of her voice. "Ri tum, ti turn, ti tum, tum, tum, tiddy, iddy," went Lord Ipsden he whistled a polka. "I have heard it at a distance, but I never saw how it was done before. It is very, very pretty!!!!"
And you meets soldiers, and parties in red coats ridin' on horses, with spotted dawgs, and motors as run you down and take your 'ead off afore you know you're dead if you don't look alive. Adventures? I should think so!" "Ah!" said Dickie, and a full silence fell between them. "Tired?" asked Mr. Beale presently. "Just a tiddy bit, p'raps," said Dickie bravely, "but I can stick it."
Consider yourself thoroughly taken. You are not to be discovered in corners with Clarence, nor showing Tiddy how his steps should go." But Joy only laughed. There was little time for discussion after that. They rehearsed steadily, with the frenzied feeling of unpreparedness that only amateurs can fully know, till it was more than time for the "brief bite" of Clarence's description.
She was earnestly trying to make her guests and John's have as good a time as lay in her power, and she never thought about Gail, quiet and quite out of the center of the stage, at all. Tiddy, rapt and worshipful, clung close to her till the evening was over. "I say," he told her when the others were going, "you do you know, you're wonderful! I do you mind if I come over tomorrow?
It was very comfortable to have John jealous, even if it was silly of him. "All right, John, hereafter I will wear a wire cage whenever I have any scenes with Tiddy." "Better wear it when you have scenes with Clarence," said John rather sharply. "And let me tell you, a man that will try to steal " "Oh, nonsense!" said Joy calmly again.
Th' first thing I know a shell loaded with dynnymite dhrops into th' lap iv some frind iv mine in San Francisco; a party iv Jap'nese land in Boston an' scalp th' wigs off th' descindants iv John Hancock an' Sam Adams; an' Tiddy Rosenfelt is discovered undher a bed with a small language book thryin' to larn to say 'Spare me' in th' Jap'nese tongue.
You ought to hear John's description of " "She shan't it's not for your young ears," said Clarence possessively from where he stood, a little behind Gail. Gail had three men with her Clarence, John, and a slim youth who looked younger than he proved to be, and who answered to the name of Tiddy. All Joy's feelings of triumph and innocent satisfaction in having won the liking of Mrs.
Harrington, I thought you were going to be one of those, at least!" protested Tiddy, to whom it seemed a shame that Phyllis' golden loveliness should be wasted. Allan was Lord Tolloller, the other suitor, but Phyllis preferred, she said, to be generally useful.
"I couldn't help it if they didn't rise in the oven. Go rag the cookbook." Joy could stand it no longer. Forgetting her real state, she rushed out on them, where they wrestled with the dinner and Tiddy. They were playing handball with the biscuits by this time. "Oh, Tiddy! You didn't put yeast in those biscuits!" she reproached him.
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