"No, darling."

"Peesh yash?"

"No. Now be a good little girl and run out and play quietly, not right in
the middle of the broiling sun."

"And so Lizzie said, 'Very well, but if I do take that medicine my death
will be wholly on your responsibility!'" with a sense of climax.

"But I really would like to, Mrs. Severance, if you can ever spare the
time."

Ted and Louise's friend seemed to be getting along very well. That was
nice--so often Oliver's friends and Louise's didn't. It seemed odd that
Mrs. Severance should be working on "Mode"--surely a girl of her obvious
looks and intelligence left with no children to support--some nice man--A
lady, too, by her voice, though there was a trifle of something--

She only hoped Mrs. Severance didn't think them all too crowded and noisy.
It was a little hard on the three children to have such an--intimate--home
when they brought friends.

"I think we'd better have coffee out on the porch, don't you?" That meant
argument with Sheba later but an hour's cool and talk without having to
shout across the dear little children was worth the argument.

Everybody got up, Ted being rather gallant to Mrs. Severance. Oliver looked
worried today, worried and tired. She hoped it wasn't about Nancy and the