Excerpt from The Lever: A Novel
The girl leaned forward impulsively from the leisurely moving victoria and looked back at the automobile which whizzed by the carriage, along the maple-lined road leading from Washington to Chevy Chase; then she as suddenly resumed her former position when she discovered that the young man, who was the only occupant of the motor-car, had slowed down and was gazing back at her.
"How impertinent!" she exclaimed, flushing, addressing herself rather than the older woman beside her. "Of course, it couldn't be Allen; but if it wasn't, why was he looking back at me? Did you recognize him, Eleanor?"
"Who's impertinent?" queried Patricia, who sat between them and exercised a ten-year-old sister's prerogative.
Mrs. Gorham was quietly amused. "Which question shall I answer first, Alice - and who is 'Allen' supposed to be?"
It was the girl's turn to sense the situation. "How ridiculous!" she laughed. "Of course you wouldn't know.
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