Ralph and Evelyn happened to meet at the pump, quite accidentally,
after the former had made half a dozen five-minute-apart trips for
a drink. It was Miss Van Kamp, this time, who had been studying on
the mutual acquaintance problem.
“You don’t happen to know the Tylers, of Parkersburg, do you?” she
asked.
“The Tylers! I should say I do!” was the unexpected and
enthusiastic reply. “Why, we are on our way now to Miss Georgiana
Tyler’s wedding to my friend Jimmy Carston. I’m to be best man.”
“How delightful!” she exclaimed. “We are on the way there, too.
Georgiana was my dearest chum at school, and I am to be her ‘‘best
girl.’”
“Let’s go around on the porch and sit down,” said Ralph.