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118 A SOCIAL METEOR. “ cherie?” turning to Miss Wheatley with her most “fetching” smile. Georgie replied in the same coldly polite tone as before: “Certainly, Ray, if Mr. Grant has nothing on hand for to-morrow evening, we can go.” She rather hoped Mr. Grant would notice her reluctance and plead a previous engagement, but he bowed slightly, and expressed himself as entirely at the service of the ladies. Ray, charmed to see that things were likely to run according to her liking at last, determined to clinch matters then and there and leave no loop- hole for Georgie to slip out of. “Then it’s all settled, Mr. Nelson,” she said decidedly, “and we won’t disappoint you. But where shall it be? Can’t you suggest some real Bohemian place, where we can be quite by our- selves ?” “Let me see,” replied Jack; “what do you say to Mount St. Vincent? They get up very nice little dinners there and it will be less stiff than here.” “Capital,” cried Ray, gleefully. “I’ve never been there, and it will be a novelty for me at least.” comicbooks.com