She came up and sat down between them on one of the platform chairs.
"It was the longest time before I could place those names," she chattered. "'Buck &Avery, Consolidated Aggregation,' says I to myself.
'Buck &Avery,' I says. And, thinks I, them two old codgers must have gone to Kingdom Come, for I'm-let's see-I'm twenty, or something like that, years younger than either of you, as I remember." She poked each one jovially with her parasol.
"'Buck &Avery,' says I," she went on, cheerfully oblivious of their grimness. "'It's their boys,' I says, and so I came right along, for I need the job, and I couldn't explain the romantic part in a letter. I was thinking I'd surely be taken on when I told Buck and Avery's sons the romance.
But I don't have to tell _you_, boys."
She jocosely poked them again.
"'A little old!' you say?"-they hadn't said anything, by the way, but stood there with gaping, toothless mouths.
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