He made no reply.
     "You see, ugg boots clearance sale you don't deny it." Had he denied it, she would have said: "Of course you'd deny it!" the methods of feminine detective logic being so devised.
     "No; I don't deny it."
     "But you don't want to talk about her."
     "No."
     "It's as bad as that?" she commiserated gently. "Poor Ban! But you're young. You'll get over it." Her brooding eyes suddenly widened. "Or perhaps you won't," she amended with deeper perceptiveness. "Have you been trying me as an anodyne?" she demanded sternly.
     Banneker had ugg boots sale clearance the grace to blush. Instantly she rippled into laughter.
     "I've never seen you at a loss before. You look as sheepish as a stage-door Johnnie when his inamorata gets into the other fellow's car. Ban, you never hung about stage-doors, did you? I think it would be good for you; tame your proud spirit and all that. Why don't you write one of your 'Eban' sketches on John H. Stage-Door?"
     "I'll do better than that. Give ugg boots on clearance me of your wisdom on the subject and I'll write an interview with you for Tittle-Tattle."
     "Do! And make me awfully clever, please. Our press-agent hasn't put anything over for weeks. He's got a starving wife and seven drunken children, or something like that, and, as he'll take all the credit for the interview and even claim that he wrote it unless you sign it, perhaps it'll get him a raise and he can then uggs on sale for kids buy the girl who plays the manicure part a bunch of orchids. _He_'d have been a stage-door Johnnie if he hadn't stubbed his toe and become a press-agent."
     "All right," said Banneker. "Now: I'll ask the stupid questions and you give the cutie answers."
     It was two o'clock when Miss Betty Raleigh, having seen the gist of all her witty and profound observations upon a strange species embodied in three or four scrawled notes on the ugg boots sale back of a menu, rose and observed that, whereas acting was her favorite pastime, her real and serious business was sleep. At her door she held her face up to him as straightforwardly as a child. "Good luck to you, dear boy," she said softly. "If I ever were a fortune-teller, I would say that your star was for happiness and success."