others. Entertainment, in fact, was the one object of the establishment.

"Well, can't you entertain me yourself?"

"Perhaps I can." And it almost seemed as if he had been secured and
isolated for the express purpose of undergoing a particular course of
treatment.

"----in the interval," she amended. "They'll be back by sunset. They're
clever girls and I know you'll enjoy them."

She uttered this belief emphatically--so emphatically, in truth, that it
came to mean: "I wonder if you will indeed." And there was even an
overtone: "After all, it's not the least necessary that you should."

"I suppose I have met one of them already."

"You have met Amy. But there are Hortense and Carolyn."

"What can they all be?" He wondered to himself: "daughters, nieces,
cousins, co-eds, boarders...?"

"Amy plays. Hortense paints. Carolyn is a poet."

"Amy plays? Pardon me for calling her Amy, but you have never given me the
rest of her name."

"I certainly presented you."

"To 'Amy'."