"Simply because you met me down-town with a man I never saw but once before and just barely know! Why all this palaver ?" "'Why ?'" he repeated, grinning.

"Well, I've seen you start before, you know!" He went to the door, and paused.

"I got no date to-night.

Take you to the movies, you care to go." She declined crisply.

"No, thanks!" "Come on," he said, as pleasantly as he knew how.
"Give me a chance to show you a better time than we had up at that frozen-face joint.