I'll tell you about them while we drive over to Mrs.Bisbee's.
"It's this way," she began a few moments later, as they rattled down the road; "Bernice asked Allison if Mister Shelby couldn't be in one of the tableaux.

Allison said yes, that they had intended to ask him before she spoke of it; that they had decided to ask him to be the boatman in the tableau of 'Elaine, the Lily Maid of Astolat.' But when Bernice found that Lloyd had already been asked to be Elaine, she was furious.

She said she was just as good as engaged to him, or something of the sort, I don't know exactly what.

And she knew, if Lloyd had a chance to monopolize him in that beautiful tableau, what it would lead to.

It wouldn't be the first time that Lloyd had quietly stepped in and taken possession of her particular friends.