I asked her to ask you if you would see Miss Wilder after classes yesterday afternoon." "Emma Dean again," laughed Grace.

"Didn't you know, Arline, that the Dean messenger service is absolutely unreliable?
Emma is always perfectly willing to deliver a message, but never remembers to deliver it.

Only last week Elfreda made an engagement with a dressmaker who sews for Emma.

In the meantime Emma went to the dressmaker's house for a fitting, and the woman asked her to tell Elfreda to come for her fitting on Thursday instead of Friday night.

Emma forgot it before she was a block from the dressmaker's, and poor Elfreda dutifully trudged off to her fitting instead of accepting an invitation to a theatre party that the girls got up on Friday afternoon.