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Undertow by Kathleen Thompson Norris
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-just a little frightened. I feel as if perhaps we had been a
little too brave. When your cousins, and mine, ask us how we do
it, and make so much of it, it makes me feel a little uneasy.
Suppose we really aren't able to swing it ...?"

Bert knew how to meet this mood, and he never failed her. He put
his arm about her, tonight, and gave her his sunniest smile.

"We could pay less rent, dear."

This fired Nancy. Of course they could. She had seen really
possible places, in inaccessible neighbourhoods, which rented far
more reasonably. She had seen quite sunny and clean flats for as
little as fourteen and sixteen dollars a month. Her housekeeping
abilities awakened to the demand. What did she and Bert care about
neighbourhoods and the casual dictates of fashion? They were a
world in themselves, and they needed no other company.

"Everyone said that we'd never get this far," Bert reminded her
hearteningly. She was immediately reassured, and fell to
enthusiastic planning for Christmas.




Chapter Six


It was their first Christmas, and they spent it alone together.
Bert and Nancy knew that they would not spend another Christmas
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