"Now what?"

"If you'd let me help you to-day, we could take the show to the
fete and simply rake it in. It's a splendid way of winning your
bet, too. Oh, booth, isn't it obvious that you've been sent?"

"It certainly would be nicer than giving performances about the
village," she said musingly. "If only I knew you- "

"You don't know the fellow who isn't getting the milk," I
objected.

"That's different. He'd be only a servant."

"I would be the same."

There was a pause. A rabbit loped into the road and blinked
curiously at the booth. Then he saw me and beat a hasty
retreat.

"It is in a good cause," I urged. "You don't know the Bananas;
they're absurdly- er -straight."

"It's all very well for you," she said; "you know everybody
here. But it would be an impossible position for me; I don't
know a soul. Now, if we were both strangers- "

"Well?"

"Well, then they wouldn't worry as to who we were and what we