Beeeeep! Beeeeep! Beeeeep! Now Ned was the one to jolt as the handkerchief began screeching. But Evangeline giggled and flapped the cloth. Beeeeep! Beeeeep! Beeeeep! Ned whipped a deadly look at Alice, who gazed back with the placid ignorance of everyone who gives a noisy present to a small child.
