"I mentioned it."
"I had already told him of it," put in Judge Gray from the background,
where he was listening with interest. "I'm glad you asked him, Rosamond,
and I'll answer for your forgiveness. While you are inviting I should
like to invite his grandfather also. Christmas Eve is a lonely time for
him, I'll be bound, and it would do him good to meet Rufus and Phil, and
the rest again."
"I'll tell you what we're going to end by being," murmured Louis to
Roberta:--"a 'Discontented Millionaires' Home.'"
* * * * *
On the stairs an hour afterward a brief but significant colloquy took
place between Rosamond Gray and her sister-in-law, Roberta.
"Why do you mind having him come, Rob? Haven't you any charity for the
poor at Christmas time?"
"Poor! He's poor enough, but he doesn't know it."
"Doesn't he? The night he was here at dinner he told me he felt poor."
Rosamond's look was triumphant. "He feels it very much; he's never known
what family life meant."
"Do you imagine he can adapt himself to the conditions of the Christmas
party? If I catch him laughing--ever so covertly--I'll send him home!"
"You savage person! You don't expect to catch him laughing! He's a
gentleman.
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