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Kenerley," said Kit, with exaggerated earnestness. "Honest and truly, I wouldn't! I NEVER write letters to strangers, unless I'm SURE the strangers are Patty Fairfield. And I'm sure I shouldn't dare to write a letter to the young lady of the photograph that came to me. She looked like an angel in the last stages of nervous prostration."
Do you want him now?" "No! of course I don't! Do be still, Roger! And stop that foolish smiling! Well, then, I'm going to talk to Adele Kenerley." Patty ran away from Roger, who was decidedly in a teasing mood, and seated herself beside the pretty young matron. "Such a GOOD child," Mrs. Kenerley was saying; "she NEVER cries, and she's SO loving and affectionate."
"Here he is," sang out Patty, as they reached the car. "Mrs. Kenerley, Miss Dow, may I present Mr. Cameron, the celebrated violin virtuoso." Adele greeted him warmly, and Daisy smiled on him, and Cameron's own delightful manner soon made them all friends. "Jump in and go home with us, Mr. Cameron," said Adele, turning down a side seat in the car. "But my stay in Maple Bank is limited," said Kit.
"Mona," said Mr. Kenerley, "I shall have to call you that, for I doubt if my wife has ever even mentioned your last name to me, and if she has, I have forgotten it, Mona, how long does one have to be a guest at 'Red Chimneys' before he is allowed to go for a dip in that tempting looking ocean I perceive hard by?" "Oh, only about ten minutes," said Mona, laughing at his impatience.
So Patty kept on her pretty, picturesque costume, and when dinner time came she made up her mind to ask Adele to seat her next to Farnsworth. But as the company paired off to go to dinner Big Bill was nowhere visible. "Where's Mr. Farnsworth?" asked Patty, casually, of Jim Kenerley. "Oh, he's gone.
But his call was short and soon he was again starting his car. "Which way did Miss Fairfield go?" he murmured in a low voice to Kenerley, as his car moved off. "East," said Jim, with a teasing smile at Farnsworth, and then Bill was gone. He swung out on to the broad highway and turned east. There were no bypaths near and he had an intention of following and overtaking Patty.
The "Red Chimneys" party congratulated Cromer heartily on his clever entertainment, and renewed their lamentations that the house party would be so soon only a memory. "Let's all go over to the Country Club for a farewell dinner and dance," suggested Jim Kenerley. "All right," agreed Patty, who was always ready for a dance. "I can't go," said Farnsworth.
Kenerley and Baby May spent much of the time with her, she did not have a dull day. In the afternoon Daisy came in. Patty, in a blue silk negligee, sat at her desk writing letters. "How sweet you look!" said Daisy, sitting beside her. "When are you coming downstairs? The boys are moping all over the place. I believe you're staying up here for coquetry."
Patty had also taught her to wave her hair in pretty, loose curls that were far more effective than the tight frizzes she had worn. The plans for the house party were complete, and, to the girls, entirely satisfactory. Adele Kenerley had been a school friend of Mona's, and was coming with her husband and baby girl.
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