But he resisted.
"I can see you two are great chums," said he. "I envy you both your
afternoon, clear through to the corn-popping."
"If you are still at work when we reach that stage we will--send you in
some of it," she promised, and laughed again at the way his face fell.
"I thought perhaps you were going to invite me in to help pop," he
suggested boldly.
"I understand you are engaged in the serious labour of collecting
material for a book on a most serious subject," she replied. "We
shouldn't dare to divert your mind; and besides I am told that Uncle
Calvin intends to introduce you formally to the family by inviting you
to dinner some evening next week. Do you think you ought to steal in by
coming to a corn-popping beforehand? You see now I can quite truthfully
say to Uncle Calvin that I don't yet know you, but after I had popped
corn with you--"
She paused, and he eagerly filled out the sentence: "You would know me?
I hope you would! Because, to tell the honest truth, literary research
is a bit new and difficult to me as yet, and any diversion--"
But she would not ask him to the corn-popping.
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