I didn't even know there was one." "Well, I know I heard our clock strike two just about half an hour afterward," protested young Haight.
"Oh, it was almost five o'clock when it came," cried Henrietta Vance.
"Well, now, you're _all_ off," said Charlie Geary.

"I know just when she quaked to the fraction of a minute, because it stopped our hall clock at just a little after three." They were silent.

It was an argument which was hard to contradict.

By and by, young Haight declared, "There must have been two of them then, because--" "How about whist or euchre or whatever it is to be ?" said Charlie Geary, addressing Turner and interrupting in an annoying way that was peculiar to him.

"Can't we start in now that Van has come ?" They played euchre for a while, but Geary did not like the game, and by and by suggested poker.
"Well--if it's only just for love," said Turner, "because, you know, mamma doesn't like it any other way." At ten o'clock Geary said, "Let's quit after this hand round--what do you say ?" The rest were willing and so they all took account of their chips after the next deal.