CHAPTER XXIII.

LAID UP.

Harriet Holden was sitting in Elizabeth's boudoir. "And he had the effrontery," the latter was saying, "to tell me what I must do and must not do! The idea! A miserable little milk-wagon driver dictating to me!"

Miss Holden smiled.

"I should not call him very little," she remarked.

"I didn't mean physically," retorted Elizabeth. "It is absolutely insufferable. I am going to demand that father discharge the man."

"And suppose he asks you why?" asked Harriet. "You will tell him, of course, that you want this person discharged because he protected you from the insults and attacks of a ruffian while you were dining in Feinheimer's at night--is that it?"

"You are utterly impossible, Harriet!" cried Elizabeth, stamping her foot. "You are as bad as that efficiency person. But, then, I might have expected it! You have always, it seems to me, shown a great deal more interest in the fellow than necessary, and probably the fact that Harold doesn't like him is enough to make you partial toward him, for you have never tried to hide the fact that you don't like Harold."

"If you're going to be cross," said Harriet, "I think I shall go home."

At about the same time the Lizard entered Feinheimer's. In the far corner of the room Murray was seated at a table. The Lizard approached and sat down opposite him. "Here I am," he said. "What do you want, and how did you know I was in town?"

1. Who was sitting?
2. In what?
3. Whose was it?
4. What was she going to demand her father do?
5. What does Elizabeth want her father to do to the person who told her what she must and must not do?
6. What is the profession of the man she's talking about?
7. Is he happy?
8. Does Harriet think him very small?
9. Where is Harriet going to go if Elizabeth continues to be out of sorts?
10. Who arrived after Harriet said that?
11. Where?
12. Who else was in the room?
13. Where was he?
14. Did Lizard join him?
15. Does it seem like they're friends?
16. Who doesn't Harriet like, according to Elizabeth?
17. And has she ever tried to hide her disdain?
18. What did Elizabeth do with her foot?
19. Does it sound like Elizabeth maybe has a thing for the wagon driver?
20. What did the milk driver protect Elizabeth from while she was dining in Feinheimer's?

Numbered answers:
1. Harriet Holden
2. Elizabeth's boudoir
3. Elizabeth's
4. tell me what I must do and must not do
5. discharge the man
6. milk-wagon driver
7. no
8. no
9. home
10. the Lizard
11. Feinheimer's
12. Murray
13. In the far corner
14. yes
15. no
16. Harold
17. no
18. stamped it
19. no
20. the insults and attacks of a ruffian