CHAPTER V.MARIE SPEAKS HER MIND.
Billy with John and Peggy met Marie Hawthorn at the station.

"Peggy" was short for "Pegasus," and was what Billy always called her luxurious, seven-seated touring car.
"I simply won't call it 'automobile,'" she had declared when she bought it.

"In the first place, it takes too long to say it, and in the second place, I don't want to add one more to the nineteen different ways to pronounce it that I hear all around me every day now.

As for calling it my 'car,' or my 'motor car'-- I should expect to see a Pullman or one of those huge black trucks before my door, if I ordered it by either of those names.

Neither will I insult the beautiful thing by calling it a 'machine.' Its name is Pegasus.