"Please don't make light of it. It means so much to me. I--I'm in love with Jack Chapin." "With Jack!" "Yes. When I came here I thought I cared for somebody else. Why, I wanted to come here just because I knew that--that somebody else had been invited too, and we could be together." "And he couldn't come--" "Wait! And then, when I got here, I met Jack Chapin. That was less than a week ago, and yet in that short time I have learned that he is the only man I can ever love--the one man in all the world." "And you can't accept because you have a previous engagement. I see! Jove! It's quite dramatic. But I don't see why you are so excited? If the other chap isn't coming--" "But he is! That is what makes it so dreadful! If those two men should meet"--Mrs. Keap buried her face in her hands and shuddered--"there would be a tragedy, they are both so frightfully jealous." She began to tremble, and Speed laid a comforting hand upon her shoulder. "I think you must be exciting yourself unduly," said he, "Jean's other friends didn't come. There's nobody due now but Culver Cov--" "That's who it is!" Roberta raised her pallid face as the young man fell back. "Culver! Great Scott! Why, he's engaged--" "What!" "Nothing! I--I--" Speed paused, at an utter loss for words. "You see, he'll discover the truth." "Does he know you are here?" "No. I intended to surprise him. I was jealous. I couldn't bear to think of his being here with other girls--men are so deceitful! That's why I consented to act as chaperon to Helen. And now to think that I should have met my fate in Jack Chapin!" "I see. You want me to break the news to Culver." "No! no!" Mrs. Keap was aghast. "If he even suspected the truth he'd become a raging lion. Oh, I've been quite distracted ever since Jack left!"