It isn't much, but I don't want to tell while he's in the house.

He has been teasing me so." "I'd stay to lunch if anybody would ask me three times," announced Phil, presently.

"I have to have my welcome assured." "I'll ask you if Mary is willing," said Joyce, who had gone back to her work.

"She has promised to be chef to-day." Mary regarded him doubtfully, as if weighing the matter, then said, "I'm willing if he'll promise not to mention what happened this morning another single time.

And he can order any two dishes in the cook-book that can be prepared in an hour, and I'll make them; that is, of course, if the materials are in the house." "Then I choose doughnuts," was the ready answer.