"I've always wanted," she went on, "to see Laura really puzzled--downright flabbergasted.

And I saw her just like that last night." Roger looked up with a jerk of his head: "You and Laura--together last night ?" "Exactly--on the Astor Roof." At her father's glare of astonishment a look of quiet relish came over her mobile features.

Her wide lips twitched a little.

"Well, why not ?" she asked him.

"I'm quite a dancer down at school.
And last night with Allan Baird--we were dining together, you know--he proposed we go somewhere and dance.