"I have an idea that a given number of girls make more noise in a house
than the same number of young fellows. I know that they do in boarding-
houses and rooming-houses, and I believe it's so as between sororities and
fraternities. Put a noise-gauge in the main hall of the Alpha-Alpha house
and another in the main hall of the Beta-Beta house, and the girls would
run the score above the boys every time. If ever I build a sorority house,
it will be for the Delta-Iota-Nus, and a statue of the great goddess DIN
herself shall stand just within the entrance."

"You discourage me. I was going to give a dinner."

"Go ahead. A few remarks from me won't stop the course of your hospitality.
Neither would a few orations. Neither would a few deliberative bodies
assembled for a month of sessions, with every member talking from nine till
six."

"You think I indulge in too many?"

"Too many what? Festivals? Puns?"

Medora paused, a bit puzzled.

"Puns? Why, I never, never----Oh, I see!"

"Too many dinners? No. Who could?"

"This one was to be a young people's dinner. I was going to invite you."

"Thanks. Thanks. Thanks."