I've a telephone engagement between five and six." "But we never serve dinner till seven," replied Patty, buttoning her coat austerely.
Kate laughed merrily.
"If you will ask me over to dinner," said Warrington, "I'll tell you a secret, a real dark political secret, one that I've promised not to tell to a soul." The two women stopped abruptly.

The cast was irresistible, and they had to rise to it.
Yet Patty murmured: "How like a woman he is!" "It simply shows what high regard I have for your discretion.

It is a secret some men would pay a comfortable fortune to learn." "Will you please come and dine with us this evening ?" asked Patty.
"I shall be very happy." "And now, the secret," said Mrs.Jack.
"Between five and six I expect a call on the phone from Senator Henderson." "Senator Henderson!" exclaimed the women in unison.
"I shall say but a single word.

It will be yes." "But the secret! Mercy alive, you are keeping us waiting!" Warrington glanced around with mock caution.

He went mysteriously to the portieres and peered into the hall; he repeated this performance at the dining-room door, then turned, a finger upon his lips.
"Senator Henderson is looking for a candidate for mayor this fall.
Mind, not a word to a soul, not even to John," this warning addressed principally to Mrs.Jack.
"The Honorable Richard Warrington," said Patty, musing.