I have my own key, so we can leave our luggage and go to Vinton's or any other place we wish for luncheon.

You can spend the night at Harlowe House.

We won't be alone there, for the cook and both maids are supposed to arrive to-day.

After you have enjoyed a few hours of my beneficent society you may refuse to be torn from me and my sheltering home," she ended banteringly.
"I haven't the least doubt of it," averred Emma in a perfectly serious tone.

"That's why I feel as though I ought to decide now while I am in my most heroic mood.