Mr. Cameron was especially interested in Patty's club called "Happy
Saturdays."
"It's the kindest thing I ever heard of," he said, enthusiastically.
"It does good to people who can't be reached by any organised
charity. I don't want to intrude, Miss Fairfield, and I don't want
to exploit myself, but if you ever give your Saturday friends a
little musicale or anything like that, I'd jolly well like to play
for you. I'll play popular stuff, or I'll play my best Sunday-go-to-
meeting pieces, whichever you prefer."
"That's awfully nice of you," said Patty, smiling at him. "I've
often thought I'd get up something of that sort."
"We might have it here," said Nan, "unless you mean to invite more
people than we could take care of."
"I'd like to have it here," said Patty; "the drawing-room would
easily seat sixty or seventy in an audience,--perhaps more. And I
don't believe we could find more than that to invite. Although I
know of a girls' club that I'd like to invite as a whole."
"It's a pretty big thing you're getting up, Pattikins," said Mr.
Fairfield, smiling kindly at his enthusiastic daughter, "but if you
think you can swing it, go ahead. I'll help all I can."
"It would upset the house terribly," said Nan; "but I don't mind
that.
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