"Which saved which?" she asked heartily.
Mrs. Ryder, who was farther along in the line, but not too far, beamed
delightedly, yet without the slightest trace of malice. An eminent visiting
educator, five or six steps behind our hero, frowned in question and had to
have the situation explained by the lady in his company.
Cope, a trifle embarrassed, and half-inclined to wish he had not come, did
what he could to deprive the episode of both hero and heroine. It was about
an even thing, he guessed,--a matter of cooperation.
"Isn't that delightful!" exclaimed the president's wife to the wife of the
banker, before passing Cope on. "And so modern! Equality of the sexes....
Woman doing her share, et cetera! For this," she presently said to the
impatient educator from outside, "are we co-educational!" And, "Good
teamwork!" she contrived to call after Cope, who was now disappearing in
the crowd.
Cope lost himself from Randolph, and presently got away without seeing who
was pouring coffee or who was the lightest on foot among the younger
professors. The president's wife had asked him, besides, how the young lady
had got through it, and had even inquired after her present condition.
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