THE GIRL IN HIS HOUSE
dancing. Doris hasn't seen that phase of New York life yet. Bob's too busy to come up-town, and so we thought you might help us out."
"All right. But I'm as much in the dark as Miss Athelstone. You'll have to do the guiding, Betty. How'd you come?"
"Subway. We've been shopping all the morning. Doris wants a new dress for that dinner I'm going to give Clare. The Honorable George is very nice. Clare is in luck."
"So am I," said Armitage.
"It will be my first real dinner. I'm so excited!" Doris came close to the desk. "How nice and kind you people are to me! Some one told me once that a person might live and die in New York and not know a single neighbor."
"That's true enough," said Armitage, getting into his coat. "But on this especial occasion you moved in next to the nicest lady but one in this world."
"And just who is the nicest?" Betty demanded; but she was thinking, "What a stupendous, scrumptious thing that would be!" For now that Armitage had signified
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