eyes twinkling.
"Cooking is the only thing I really know how to do. But I can do that."

"You'll be fine as cook," said Roger. "May I come round Thursday
afternoons and take you out?"

"I s'pose I'll only have every other Thursday," said Patty, demurely.

"And the other Thursday you won't be there! But what about this club
we're organising?"

"Make it musical," said Kenneth, "and then while one of us is playing or
singing some classical selection, the others can indulge in merry
conversation."

"You may as well make it the Patty Club," said Elise, "as I suppose it
will always meet here."

Though not really jealous of her friend's popularity, Elise always
resented the fact that the young people would rather be at Patty's than
at her own home.

The reason was, that the Fairfield house, though handsomely appointed,
was not so formally grand as the Farringtons', and there was always an
atmosphere of cordiality and hospitality at Patty's, while at Elise's it
was oppressively formal and dignified.

"Oh, pshaw," said Patty, ignoring Elise's unkind intent; "I won't have
you always here. We'll take turns, of course."

"All right," said Elise; "every other week at my house and every other
week here. But don't you think we ought to have more than four members?"

"No, I don't," declared Kenneth, promptly. "And we don't want any musical
nonsense, or any dramatic foolishness, either. Let's just have fun; if
it's pleasant weather, we'll go skating, or sleighing, or motoring, or
whatever you like; if it isn't, we'll stay indoors, or go to a matinee
or concert, or something like that."

"Lovely!" cried Elise. "But if we're to go to matinees, we'll have to
meet Saturdays."

"Or Wednesdays," amended Patty. "Let's meet Wednesdays. I 'most always
have engagements on Saturdays."

"All right; shall we call it the Wednesday Club, then?"

"No, Elise," said Roger, gravely. "That's too obvious; we will call it
the Thursday Club, because we meet on Wednesday; see?"

"No, I don't see," said Elise, looking puzzled.

"Why," explained Roger, "you see we'll spend all day Thursday thinking
over the good time we had on Wednesday!"

"But that isn't the real reason," said Patty, giggling. "The real reason
we call it the Thursday Club is because it meets on Wednesday!"

"That's it, Patsy!" said Ken, approvingly, for he and Patty had the same
love for nonsense, though more practical Elise couldn't always understand
it.

"Well, then,