Chapter XXIII—Waiting for the Human Mouse

After dinner I sat down to read, Amy and Willy played double Canfield, Evelyn and Herbert went off to the little drawing-room to talk about their house, Aunt Penelope ran the victrola, and Uncle Archie, S. K., and our two guests played auction. They put up quite a heavy stake on it, criticized each other’s plays after each hand, and acted as people do when they are playing cards for pleasure. Ito came in with a tray of glasses and some sort of light Italian wine, and then he left, and it began to get late. Of cours…