Frances can't arrange to be with us, so we need one more girl to do away with the problem of the 'lonely fifth.' Three pairs are much nicer than two and a half.
The half always seems out of things.

Of course, I am proceeding in the belief that K.W.

won't come now, even if you have invited her.
If she has a shred of delicacy in her cheeky little composition, she will stay away.
"I must stop now and rush off on the trail of a much-feted debutante of whose engagement I have heard canny rumors.

Until Wednesday.
"MABEL." "What a darling Mabel is," said Grace half aloud.

"I wonder who I had better invite." Arline's pretty, wilful face rose before her.