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"No; she's gone to the opera with the Greggorys." "The opera!" There was a grieved hurt in Bertram's voice that Aunt Hannah quite misunderstood. She hastened to give an apologetic explanation. "Yes. She would have told you she would have asked you to join them, I'm sure, but she said you were going to a banquet. I'm sure she said so." "Yes, I did tell her so last night," nodded Bertram, dully.
Greggory if ever the opportunity offered. Great was her joy, therefore, when, a day or two after the Greggorys arrived at the house, Mrs. Greggory's chance reference to Arkwright and her daughter gave Billy the opportunity she sought. "They used to know each other long ago, Mr. Arkwright tells me," Billy began warily. "Yes."
The little couple were delighted, and the Greggorys were scarcely less so when they at last became convinced that only a very little more money than they were already paying would give themselves a much pleasanter home, and would at the same time be a real boon to two young people who were trying to meet expenses.
Carleton told me last Friday that neither she nor her sister was at all satisfied with the one their girls have taken. They'd change, I know, in a minute, at my recommendation that is, of course, if I can give the recommendation," continued Billy, with a troubled frown. "Anyhow, I'm going down to begin operations to-morrow." True to her assertion, Billy went down to the Greggorys' the next day.
Won't you repent and go, too?" "No oh, no, indeed!" "All right, then; good-by. I'm sorry!" "So'm I. Good-by," sighed Aunt Hannah, as she hung up the receiver and turned away. It was after five o'clock when Billy got home, and so hurried were the dressing and the dinner that Aunt Hannah forgot to mention Bertram's telephone call till just as Billy was ready to start for the Greggorys'.
Greggory to teach him books; and I shall tell them both that I positively need them to keep you company." "Oh, but Billy," bridled Aunt Hannah, with prompt objection. "Tut, tut! I know you'll be willing to be thrown as a little bit of a sop to the Greggorys' pride," coaxed Billy. "You just wait till I get the Overflow Annex in running order.
He said last night he had a banquet on for to-night one of his art clubs, I believe." Billy's voice was casualness itself. "But you'll have the Greggorys that is, Mrs. Greggory can go, can't she?" inquired Aunt Hannah. "Oh, yes; I'm sure she can," nodded Billy. "You know she went to the operetta, and this is just the same only bigger." "Yes, yes, I know," murmured Aunt Hannah. "Dear me!
"Oh, they won't know I'm a fairy godmother not one of them; and of course I wouldn't mention even a hint to anybody," laughed Billy. "I'm just going down to get acquainted with the Greggorys; that's all. Only think, Aunt Hannah, what they must have suffered! And look at the place they're living in now gentlewomen like them!" "Yes, yes, poor things, poor things!" sighed Aunt Hannah.
There was almost a romance there, I think, before the Greggorys lost their money and moved away from all their friends." "Well, he may have her. She's a nice girl a mighty nice girl," answered Bertram, with the unmistakably satisfied air of the man who knows he himself possesses the nicest girl of them all. Billy, reading unerringly the triumph in his voice, grew suddenly grave.
Billy laughed, and settled herself more comfortably on the hassock at Aunt Hannah's feet. "Well, I'll tell you. Just now I want it for Tommy Dunn, and the Greggorys if I can get them, and maybe one or two others. There'll always be somebody. You see, I had thought I'd have them at the Strata." "Tommy Dunn at the Strata!" Billy laughed again ruefully. "O dear!
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