"That's better. Let's go together--as friends."

"Who would imagine us going as enemies?"

"Who, indeed?" Yet if they went together they went as reconciledcompetitors,--they went as the result of a truce.

"I should like to see Bertram Cope in cap and gown," he said.

"He has worn them before, he tells me."

"As a----?"

"As a member of the choir, during his undergraduate days."

"I see."

"I never noticed him especially, then," she acknowledged.

"We can notice him now."