lilacs in the tower room, and, at lunch, which was shared with three farm college students from Davis, he found himself forced to extemporize a busy afternoon for himself when Paula tentatively suggested that she would drive Graham up from Eldorado.

“Drive?” Dick asked.

“Duddy and Fuddy,” she explained. “They’re all on edge, and I just feel like exercising them and myself. Of course, if you’ll share the exercise, we’ll drive anywhere you say, and let him come up in the machine.”

Dick strove not to think there was anxiety in her manner while she waited for him to accept or decline her invitation.

“Poor Duddy and Fuddy would be in the happy hunting grounds if they had to cover my ground this afternoon,”