He lingered in the kitchen just long enough to say howdy to Rosemary Green who was anxiously watching a new and much admired coffee percolator "to see if it were going to perk," she told him gravely.

He assured Rosemary that he had come all the way out there in the hope of being invited to breakfast.

Then he went into a sleep-charged atmosphere and gave a real, old-time range yell.
"Why, I saw that peaked little person with Mr.Martinson," Mrs.Andy remarked slightingly at the breakfast table.

"Was that Bently Brown?
And he has the nerve to want to stand around and boss you--oh, find, me an umbrella, somebody! I shall choke if I can't go and tell him to his silly, pink face what a conceited little idiot he is!" (You will see why it was that Rosemary Green had been adopted without question as a member of the Happy Family.) "I hope you told him straight out, Luck Lindsay, that these boys would simply tear him limb from limb if he ever dared to butt in on your work.

Why, it's you that made the picture fit to look at!" Luck let his eyes thank her for her loyalty, and held out his empty cup for more coffee.