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Mrs. D'Alloi looked discouraged, the more when Peter and
Leonore put their heads close together, to examine the envelope.
"'_In bonam partem_,'" read Leonore. "That's easy, mamma. It's--why, she
isn't listening!"
"You can tell her later. I have something to talk to you about."
"What is that?"
"Your dinner in my quarters. Whom would you like to have there?"
"Will you really give me a dinner?"
"Yes."
"And let me have just whom I want?"
"Yes."
"Oh, lovely! Let me see. Mamma and papa, of course."
"That's four. Now you can have two more."
"Peter. Would you mind--I mean----" Leonore hesitated a moment and then
said in an apologetic tone--"Would you like to invite madame? I've been
telling her about your rooms--and you--and I think it would please her
so."
"That makes five," said Peter.
"Oh, goody!" said Leonore, "I mean," she said, correcting herself, "that
that is very kind of you."
"And now the sixth?"
"That must be a man of course," said Leonore, wrinkling up her forehead
in the intensity of puzzlement.


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