It was in answer to this request that Mrs. Breen, after consulting
her husband, had written three acceptances before she was willing
that Frederick should leave it with his own hands in Fifteenth
Street--one beginning, "It certainly is a pleasure after all these
years"--which was discarded as being too familiar; another, "So
good of you, dear Miss Grayson," which had a similar fate; and the
third, which ran, "My daughter will be most happy, dear Miss
Grayson, to be with you," etc., which was finally sealed with the
Breen crest--a four-legged beastie of some kind on its hind legs,
with a motto explanatory of the promptness of his ancestors in
times of danger. Even then Corinne had hesitated about accepting
until Garry said: "Well, let's take it in, anyhow--we can skip out
if they bore us stiff."
Knowing these things, therefore, and fearing that after all
something would happen to mar the pleasant relations he had
established with Peter, and with the honor of his uncle's family
in his keeping, so to speak, Jack had awaited the arrival of
Corinne and Garry with considerable trepidation.
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