"
"I'm afraid I couldn't manage it. They--well, you see, they are in
mourning."
"Oh, I see. Well, perhaps Maud and I could run in and see you for a
few minutes to-morrow or next day, just to talk things over a little--
what's that, Maud? I beg your pardon, Mrs. King. Ahem! Well, I'll
call you up to-morrow, if you don't mind being bothered about a silly
old ball. Good-bye. Thank you so much."
Mrs. King confronted Robin in the lower hall a few seconds later and
roundly berated him for shouting up the steps that Hobbs ought to be
invited to the ball. Prince Robin rolled on a couch and roared with
delight. Lieutenant Dank, as became an officer of the Royal Guard,
stood at attention--in the bow window with his back to the room, very
red about the ears and rigid to the bursting point.
"I suppose, however, we'll have to keep on the good side of the
Blithers syndicate," said Robin soberly, after his mirth and subsided
before her wrath. "Good Lord, Aunt Loraine, I simply cannot go up
there and stand in line like a freak in a side show for all the
ladies and girls to gape at I'll get sick the day of the party,
that's what I'll do, and you can tell 'em how desolated I am over my
misfortune.
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