Twist up that yellow mop of yours, and come along down, now.

I want you to take a stroll around the domain while there's a scrap of daylight left." The hour before dinner soon passed, and then, laughing with merriment, the hosts and guest went in to dinner.
The Kenerleys were in specially gay spirits, it seemed to Patty, and she held her own in fun and repartee.
"You must stay a long time, Patty," Jim declared.

"You're more fun than a barrel of monkeys! I'm awfully glad you came." "So'm I," assented Patty; "I wanted to get away from the giddy whirl, and lead the simple life for a few days." "Sometimes the simple life is very complicated," observed Kenerley, and he glanced at the clock.
Adele took the hint.

"You want to get away, don't you, dear ?" she said.

"And we've been dawdling over dessert! Patty, I shan't give you any coffee tonight.