to get the thread. I remember the kind; I often do such errands for
mother."

"I will wait while you get your ticket and find out if the train is
on time," said Adelaide, as Percy returned with the thread.

"At least fifty minutes late," he reported, "and the agent said he
was glad of it for he would need about that time to make out such a
long-jointed ticket as I want. I am rather glad too, for I can watch
you to the turn in the road on the hill, which must be a mile or
more, and I will time you. You can have six minutes to make that
corner."

"You mean I can have six minutes to get out of sight," she
suggested.

"I think you are out of sight," he ventured.

Adelaide reddened. "I shall have to tell mother what slang you use,"
she said.

"I hope you will," he retorted, "for I have watched her watch you
and I am sure she will agree with me. But I do feel that I owe you a
sincere apology for taking up the time we have had together with
this long discussion of the things that are of such special interest
to me. I have been alone with my mother so much and she is always so
ready and so able, I may add, to discuss any sort of business matter
that I fear I have been forgetful of your forbearance."

"But you really have not," Adelaide replied. "I keep books for papa,