"Like an old maid, she is." "Nonsense," said Nora, closing up her letter.

"Oh, it's splendid.

Let's see, it is eight years since we saw her." "Just about fifteen months since I saw her," said Larry.
"And about four months for me," said Kathleen.
"But eight years for me," cried Nora, "and she has never missed writing me every week, except once when she had the mumps, and she made her father write that week.

Now we shall have to take our old democrat to meet her, the awful old thing," said Nora in a tone of disgust.
"Jane won't mind if it is a hayrack," said Larry.
"No, but her father.

He's such a swell.