"Yes, yes, I have--many a time," Mr. Kendrick insisted. "And great times
we had. Boys and girls needed no electricity to keep them comfortable on
the coldest of nights. It's my grandson Richard who feels this sort of
thing a necessity. Until he came home a carriage and pair had been all
the equipage I needed."
"Grandfather is getting where a little extra warmth on a blustering
winter's day is essential to his comfort," Richard declared, feeling a
curious necessity, somehow, to justify the use of the expensive and
commodious equipage in the eyes of the country gentleman who seemed to
regard it so lightly.
"It's very nice," Mrs. Gray said quickly. "I should hardly know I was
outdoors at all. And how smoothly it runs along over the streets. The
young man out there in front must be a very good driver, I should think.
He doesn't seem to mind the car-tracks at all."
"No, Rogers doesn't bother much about car-tracks," Richard agreed
gravely. "His idea is to get home and to bed."
"It is pretty late--and I'm afraid waiting for us has made you a good
deal later than you would have been," said Mrs. Gray regretfully.
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