“Is it that she thinks I have been too familiar talking about the Spokesman like He was one of us plain people?” But he says no that is not it. “The truth is Miss Riggs I have not been able to persuade my wife that you and I are seriously interested in public questions and so when you sit and talk about helping me it seems to her that we are playing a game to make her ridiculous.” “Oh that is it!” I says. “But does she not know that this is a free country and that I have got a vote the same as she has?” “You are perfectly right,” he says, “and let us go on with our conversation and our dinner.” But of course I am not hungry no more I have got some self-respect for all my needing a meal and I says, “No Mr. Edgerton it will have to be some other time because I don’t think I had ought to stay in this house it would only be making your wife angrier than ever.” First he tries to stop me but then he says that he will drive me home--imagine him taking me in that electric coop that he drives her in! I says, “No Mr. Edgerton it will not be the first time that I have gone home in a street car and I will do it once more,” I says. “But Miss Riggs,” he says, “am I to lose your political counsel?” “No,” I says, “you can phone me tomorrow but right now I want you to go in and see your wife and try to fix it up with her,” I says, “and not make her no madder by taking me home alone.” And so I make him get my things and I walk home and gee Mom all the way I am thinking I will never know what was going to be the rest of that dinner! LETTER XIII IN WHICH I MISS ANOTHER HALF DINNER DEAR MOM: Of course I was on pins and needles all day waiting for Mr. Edgerton to call me so as I could find out what had happened between him and his wife. And just when I was done work and ready to go out of the beauty parlor he phoned and gee then I had to break a date with Adaire Huggins to go to a show with her and all the girls is getting more and more sorer because I am so up-stage with them having an affair with a gentleman and not telling them nothing. Well Mr. Edgerton took me to the Chink place again and we et some more chop-guey and there was no detective watching us and we had a good chat. And he says that Mrs. Edgerton is so angry she says she will never speak to him again, and then she tells him that she is going to write to the Spokesman about how her husband is taking a manicure girl to dinners with him and pretending that this girl gives him the ideas that the Spokesman has to say to all the newspaper reporters of the whole world. And of course if she does that it will mean that Mr. Edgerton will be out of his job because of course the Spokesman is a very moral man and therefore somewhat suspicious and it would not be possible to persuade Him that it was just for my ideas that Mr. Edgerton was taking me to dinner and anyhow if it was true it would be worse because it would insult Him to know where His ideas comes from.