"I should ask two or three of her girls, and some boys
to match. She is inclined to be shy, and this would be just the
occasion to help her to feel at her ease with young men. Then I
thought you would like to have a chat with Polly Warner; you so rarely
see her now, and you and she used to get on so well together; and you
know Mrs. Guy Sloane always stimulates you. I think you would have a
very good time; and, as Sam says, it's a Dutch treat, so the expense
would fall on everybody alike."
Seeing that Josephine's heart was set on going in just that way, I did
not attempt to interpose objections. I took the liberty, however, of
remarking that, though we as the parents of one of the players had a
reason for going, I could not understand why a cultivated woman like
Mrs. Guy Sloane was willing, crazy indeed according to what they had
said, to take so much trouble to see a pack of college youths knock
each other about. In answer to this, Sam declared that every man,
woman, and child in the city who could possibly get away was going to
Springfield; that trains were to be run every fifteen minutes, and that
no less than twenty special private cars in addition to ours had been
chartered for the occasion. Again I hung my diminished head before
this broadside of superior information.
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