Good-night, old lady!" He kissed her hilariously, entered his room with a skip, closed his door noisily; and then he could be heard tossing things about, loudly humming "The Man that Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo." Smiling, his mother knelt outside his door to pray; then, with her "Amen," pressed her lips to the bronze door-knob; and went silently to her own apartment.
After breakfasting in bed, George spent the next morning at his grandfather's and did not encounter his Aunt Fanny until lunch, when she seemed to be ready for him.
"Thank you so much for the serenade, George!" she said.

"Your poor father tells me he'd just got to sleep for the first time in two nights, but after your kind attentions he lay awake the rest of last night." "Perfectly true," Mr.Minafer said grimly.
"Of course, I didn't know, sir," George hastened to assure him.

"I'm awfully sorry.

But Aunt Fanny was so gloomy and excited before I went out, last evening, I thought she needed cheering up." "I!" Fanny jeered.

"I was gloomy?
I was excited?
You mean about that engagement ?" "Yes.