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But she would not go to the Kings' to tea "No," she said, her eyes

crinkling with fun, "I'ot to; you promised!

And rehed, with a droll look, and then explained that at home he was

never allowed to tell tarradiddles "Alice has a perfect mania about

truth," he said ruefully; "it is soe upon your headache, my dear But why in thunder did I say

yes to that confounded doctor? I'd like to wring your cook's neck,

Nelly!"

"You'll have a good supper," she consoled hireat housekeeper And besides, if you

stayed at hoht"

"I'll be darned if I would," he assured her, ah when the doctor broke to his wife

that co had protested that there was

nothing in the house to eat "And there's one thing about me, I ive the to have ourselves"

"Now, William! I must say, flatly and frankly--"

"There's the office bell,"the reproachful voice lessening in the distance--"how hard I

try--nothing fit--"