Asheville, but you've never seen New York until you sit
down beside me in a big six-cylinder racing car I'm
handlin' next week. Let me show it to you. I'll swing
her around to your door at eight o'clock. In twenty-
five minutes we'll clear the Bronx and shoot into New
Rochelle. There'll be no cops out to bother us, and
not a wheel in sight. It'll do you good. Let me take
you! I owe you that much for bein' so nice to me
today. Will you go with me?"

Mary hesitated.

"I'll think it over and let you know."

"Got a telephone?"

"No."

"Then you'll have to tell me before I go--won't
you?"

"I suppose so," she answered demurely.

They passed the big fountain beyond the Mall and
skirted the lake to the bridge, crossed, walked along
the water's edge to the laurel-covered crags and found
a seat alone in the summer house that hides among the
trees on its highest point.

The roar of the city was dim and far away. The