Cameron called.
"I scarcely hoped to find you at home," he said, as Patty greeted
him in the drawing-room.
"It isn't our day," she returned, "but I chanced to be in, and I'm
glad of it. Nan, may I present Mr. Cameron?" And Nan accorded a
pleasant welcome to the visitor.
"You see, Mrs. Fairfield," Cameron said, "I rarely go into society
and I fear my manners are a bit rusty. So if I have come to call too
soon, please forgive me."
His smile was so frank and his manner so easily correct, that Nan
approved of him at once. She was punctilious in such matters, and
she saw, through Kit's pretence at rustiness, that he was not
lacking in etiquette or courtesy.
"Let's have tea in the library," said Patty; "you see, Mr. Cameron,
we always invite people we like to have tea in there, rather than in
this formal place."
"That suits me; I want to be considered one of the family, and
what's the use of wasting a whole lot of time getting up to that
point? Let's make believe we've always known each other."
So tea was served in the library, and a very pleasant informal feast
it was.
Mr. Fairfield came in, and soon the whole quartette were chatting
gaily as if they had always known each other.
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