"Well, that was careless, if true. Her name is Amy Leffingwell; and
Hortense's name is----"

"Stop, please. Pay it out gradually. My poor head can hold only what it
can. Names without people to attach them to...."

"The people will be here presently," Medora Phillips said, rather shortly.
Surely this young man was taking his own tone. It was not quite the tone
usually taken by college boys on their first call. Her position and her
imposing surroundings--yes, her kindliness in noticing him at all--might
surely save her from informalities that almost shaped into impertinences.
Yet, on the other hand, nothing bored one more than a young man who openly
showed himself intimidated. What was there behind this one? More than she
had thought? Well, if so, none the worse. Time might tell.

"So Miss Leffingwell plays?" He flared out his blue-white smile. "Let me
learn my lesson page by page."

"Yes, she plays," returned Medora Phillips briefly. "Guess what," she
continued presently, half placated.

They were again side by side on a sofa, each with an elbow on its back and
the elbows near together. Nor was Medora Phillips, though plump, at all the
graceless, dumpy little body she sometimes taxed herself with being.

"What? Oh, piano, I suppose."

"Piano!"