"I shall say that as I am going to stay over and didn't fancy eating my Christmas dinner alone I thought perhaps the girls who had no particular plans for the day would like to join me at either Martell's or Vinton's.

Then I'll explain about the price of the dinner, etc., all in a perfectly offhand manner, and let them do the rest.

There are anywhere from one to two hundred girls who live at the various rooming and boarding houses who will be glad to come.

Many of them have never been inside either Vinton's or Martell's.

You would hardly believe it, but it's true." "I do believe it," said Grace soberly.