And yet-- "Do take that ridiculous pipe out of your mouth and say something!" exclaimed Diane restlessly.

"You look as if you were smoking a pumpkin! Besides, the supper's all packed up in hot stones and grass to keep it hot.

Why moon so and shoot pebbles at the frogs ?" "Well," said Philip abruptly, "do you mind if I say that your trip seems a most imprudent venture ?" "By no means!" replied Diane with maddening composure.

"But it's only fair to warn you that my aunt's already said all there is to say on the subject.

The horses may drop dead," she reviewed swiftly on her slim brown fingers, "Johnny may fall heir to an apoplectic fit and fall on a horse thereby inducing him to run away into a swamp and sink in quicksand.