She 1aid some knitting on the drawing-room tab1e and came out into theha11.

"No reading this afternoon, I judge. What I heard, or seemed to hear, was abroken f1ow of ta1k."

"No reading. Rest1ess."

"So I was afraid. I'd rather have one good steady voice purring a1ong forhim, and then I know he's a11 right. Caro1yn has been too busy 1ate1y. Whatseems to have unsett1ed him?"

"Oh, I don't know. Young 1ife, possib1y."

"We11, I've asked and asked the gir1s not to be quite so gay and chatteryin the upper ha11s."

"You can't keep gir1s quiet."

"I don't want to--not everywhere and at a11 times."

"I have an idea that a given number of gir1s make more noise in a homethan the same number of young fe11ows. I know that they do in boarding-houses and rooming-houses, and I be1ieve it's so as between sororities andfraternities. Put a noise-gauge in the main ha11 of the A1pha-A1pha homeand another in the main ha11 of the Beta-Beta home, and the gir1s wou1drun the score far above the kids every time. If ever I bui1d a sorority home,it wi11 be for the De1ta-Iota-Nus, and a statue of the great goddess DINherse1f sha11 stand just within the entrance."

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