You see I've got 'em started." She flicked a glance backward at her waiting colony.

"You men are perfectly exasperating! Why didn't you tell me where you were and what you were doing ?" She looked up at him with charming disapproval.

"I feel like shaking you! I could have made good use of you, Mr.Green." "I was making pretty good use of myself," Andy explained, and wished he knew who gave him that surreptitious kick on the ankle.

Did the chump want an introduction?
Well! In that case-- "Miss Hallman, if you don't mind I'd like to introduce some men I rounded up and brought here," he began before the Happy Family could move out of the danger zone of his imagination.

"Representative citizens, you see.