"Shall I
open mine?"
"Please. It will warm up again very quickly. It began to seem stifling."
"Not much like the place where you want to build a cabin and stay alone
in a storm. Or--not alone. You are willing to have a dog with you. What
sort of a dog?"
"A Great Dane, I think. I have a friend who owns one. They are
inseparable."
By the worst of luck the Judge chose this moment to return, and the
windows went down with a rush.
The Judge shivered, smiling at the pair. "You young things, all warmth
and vitality! You are never so happy as when the wind is lifting your
hair. Now I think I'm pretty vigorous for my years, but I wouldn't sit
and talk in a room with two open windows, in December."
"Neither can we--hang it!" thought Richard. "Why couldn't that chap have
stayed a few minutes longer--when we'd just got started?"
At luncheon-time Roberta's part in the work was not completed. Her uncle
asked for two hours more of her time and she cheerfully promised it. So
at two o'clock the stage was again set as a business office, the actors
again engaged in their parts. But at three the situation was abruptly
changed.
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