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Norma accepted with no more than ordinary politeness, and showed neither Wolf nor his mother any elation, but she felt a deep satisfaction in the renewed relationship. On the appointed Friday, at one o'clock, she mounted the familiar steps of the Christopher Liggetts' house, and greeted the butler with a delighted sense of returning to her own.
Norma gathered that a dinner invitation from the Duers had been the main cause of the young Liggetts' difference, and framed a general question. "That's Saturday night?" "Friday," Leslie amended. "And what does he do? He meets Roy Duer at the club, and says oh, no, he can't come to the dinner Friday, but Leslie can! He has promised to play bridge with the Jeromes and that crowd.
Patsy and I are going up to Glen Cove next week and he can live at his club, for all me!" "Money?" Norma asked. For Leslie's extravagance was usually the cause of the young Liggetts' domestic strife. Leslie, who had lighted a cigarette, made an affirmative grimace. "Now, it's all been settled, and Grandma has straightened it all out," old Mrs. Melrose said, soothingly.
"Grandma crying with joy, and Aunt Alice goo-gooing at me, and Acton " "Come, now, be a little sport, Leslie!" her aunt urged, affectionately, with her arm about her. "It's rotten, of course, but after all, it does mean a lot to the Liggetts " "Oh, now, don't you begin!" Leslie protested, half-mollified, with her parting nod.
But I can't think how the story got out, for I was desperately ashamed of it." "I told Aunt Annie and Leslie to-day that you wanted the Liggetts to dine here that night," Norma said, suddenly. Instantly she realized that she had made a mistake. And there was no one in the world whose light reproof hurt her as Alice's did. "You you gave my invitation to Leslie?" Alice asked, quietly.
The young Liggetts had sold the old house of Christopher's father, an immense brownstone mansion a few squares away, and lived in a modern, flat-faced gray-stone house that rose five stories from the beautifully arranged basement entrance.
Mrs. von Behrens took Norma to her Maine camp in July, and when the girl joined the Chris Liggetts in August, it was for a season of hard tennis, golf, polo, dancing, yachting, and swimming. Norma grew lean and tanned, and improved so rapidly in manner and appearance that Alice felt, concerning her, certain fears that she one day confided to her mother.
At luncheon Annie, who had joined them for the meal, proposed that Leslie and Norma and the Liggetts come to her for a quiet family dinner, but Norma begged off; she really must see Aunt Kate, and would seize this opportunity to go home for a night. But leaving the table Norma asked Chris if she might talk business to him for a few minutes.
She and Aunt Kate had been to see Mrs. Melrose again. "And, Wolf, what do you think! They want me to go live there with the Liggetts, to help with lists and things for Leslie's wedding. Mrs. Melrose kissed me, Wolf, and said didn't she, Aunt Kate? that I must try to feel that I belong to them; and she was so sweet she put her arm about me, and said that I must have some pretty clothes!
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