83/95 "In fact, I've about decided to cut out all the dinners where you're not invited. It's only three more years, anyway, before you're asked about, and if I omit three years of indigestible dinners I'll be in better shape to endure the deluge after you appear and make your bow." "When I make my bow," murmured the child; "oh, Boots, I am in such a hurry to make it! It doesn't seem as if I _could_ wait three more long, awful, disgusting years!. How does my hair look ?" "Adorable," he said, smiling across at Eileen, who had heard the question. |