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Updated: June 18, 2025
"I want to know what you say over the telephone to Lamhorn," he said, fiercely. "Is that all Edith told you to ask me? You saw her when you stopped in there on your way home this evening, didn't you? Didn't she tell you then what I said over the telephone to Mr. Lamhorn?" "No, she didn't!" he vociferated, his voice growing louder.
"I'd like to know why Roscoe couldn't have married somebody from HERE that would have done us some good! He could have got in with Bobby Lamhorn years ago just as well as now, and Bobby'd have introduced him to the nicest girls in town, but instead of that he had to go and pick up this Sibyl Rink!
Bobby Lamhorn told Sibyl he was going to bring his mother to call on her and on mamma, but it was weeks ago, and I notice he hasn't done it; and if Mrs. Vertrees decides not to know us, I'm darn sure Mrs Lamhorn'll never come. That's ONE thing Sibyl didn't manage! She SAID Bobby offered to bring his mother " "You say he is a friend of Roscoe's?" Bibbs asked.
She was pretty, but hers was not the kind of prettiness to be loaded with too sumptuous accessories, and jeweled head-dresses are dangerous they may emphasize the wrongness of the wearer. "I said Miss Vertrees seems to be starting pretty strong with Jim," repeated Mr. Lamhorn. "I heard you."
"Don't you bother, dear," said Lamhorn, quietly. "He doesn't understand. YOU mustn't be troubled." Pallor was becoming to him; he looked very handsome, and as he left the room he seemed in the girl's distraught eyes a persecuted noble, indifferent to the rabble yawping insult at his heels the rabble being enacted by her father.
I know it must 'a' hurt him to hear Edith laughin' with that Lamhorn. She'd oughtn't to let him come, right the very first evening this way; she'd oughtn't to done it! She just seems to lose her head over him, and it scares me. You heard what Sibyl said the other day, and and you heard what what " "What Edith said to Sibyl?" Bibbs finished the sentence for her.
"Too bad," said Bibbs, genially, walking to the door with the visitor, while Edith stood staring as the two disappeared in the hall. She heard Bibbs offering to "help" Lamhorn with his overcoat and the latter rather curtly declining assistance, these episodes of departure being followed by the closing of the outer door. She ran into the hall. "What's the matter with you?" she cried, furiously.
"She said, 'You tell your wife to stop telephoning Robert Lamhorn to come and see her, because he isn't going to do it! That's what she said! And I want to know what it means. I intend " A maid appeared at the lower end of the hall. "Dinner is ready," she said, and, giving the troubled pair one glance, went demurely into the dining-room. Roscoe disregarded the interruption.
She played around it awhile; you could see she wanted to she's in a dreadful hurry to get into things and I fancied she had an idea it might impress that Lamhorn boy to find us there to-night. It's a sort of house-warming dinner, and they talked about it and talked about it and then the girl got her courage up and blurted out the invitation.
"I expect I am!" she laughed, and sidelong caught the direction of his glance. "Of course I oughtn't to wear it in the daytime it's an evening thing, for the theater but my day wrist-watch is out of gear. Bobby Lamhorn broke it yesterday; he's a regular rowdy sometimes. Do you want Claus to help you in?" "Oh no," said Bibbs. "I'm alive."
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