I don't want to see them." "O, very well.

I only thought--hey, where are you going, dear ?" "Out to dinner, papa." Tracy was aghast.

The colonel said, in a disappointed voice: "Well, I'm sorry.

Sho, I didn't know she was going out, Mr.

Tracy." Gwendolen's face began to take on a sort of apprehensive 'What-have-I-done expression.' "Three old people to one young one--well, it isn't a good team, that's a fact." Gwendolen's face betrayed a dawning hopefulness and she said--with a tone of reluctance which hadn't the hall-mark on it: "If you prefer, I will send word to the Thompsons that I--" "Oh, is it the Thompsons?
That simplifies it--sets everything right.
We can fix it without spoiling your arrangements, my child.