I stopped at Loring's office to do it, and I'm so proud I'm cross-eyed.

Sister Winnie, shake hands with everybody and then run out in the gardens with Sammy." Dutifully, Winnie, in her new role of sister, shook hands with everybody and clenched their friendship with her wide blue eyes and her ingenuous smile; and, dutifully, Sammy Chirp, laden with her sun-hat and parasol and fan, her vanity box and lace hand-bag, took her out into the gardens, and the proceedings began as they usually did when Polly Parsons arrived.

Subcommittees took cheerful and happy possession of the most comfortable locations they could find, and Constance Joy walked Ashley Loring out through the side porch.
"There's a very cozy and retired seat in the summer-house," she informed him.

"I wish to have a tete-a-tete with you on a most important business matter." "You may have a tete-a-tete with me on any subject whatsoever," laughed Loring.

"I suppose it's about those Johnny Gamble attachments, however." "It's about that exactly," she acknowledged.