Edna and her escort, having made their purchases at Hamilton and Company's, were to join them at the "clam-man's." Then the whole party was to go down to the wharf and the sailboat.
Miss Edna, who was a talkative damsel, informed Mary-'Gusta of these facts at once.

Also she announced that they must hurry like everything.
"You see," she said, "we told Sam and the rest we'd be at the clam-man's in ten minutes, and, if we're not there, Sam will be awfully cross.

He hates to wait for people.

And we've been too long already.

It's all your fault, Crawford; you would stop to hear that fruit man talk.