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Treats so unforeseen, and of such magnitude, were rare in the young Fulmers' experience, and had it not been for Junie's steadying influence Susy's charges would have got out of hand. Susy, riding the whirlwind with her usual firmness, nevertheless felt an undercurrent of anxiety.
"Which one of them is it?" she asked, one foot already out of bed. "Oh, Junie dear, no... it's nothing wrong with the children... or with anybody," Susy stammered, on her knees by the bed. In the candlelight, she saw Junie's anxious brow darken reproachfully. "Oh, Susy, then why ? I was just dreaming we were all driving about Rome in a great big motor-car with father and mother!"
By daylight he was a salesman in a piano store. He wore his tie drawn through a topaz ring instead of fastened with a stick pin; and once he had written to the editor of a magazine that "Junie's Love Test" by Miss Libbey, had been the book that had most influenced his life.
"Oh, because Junie's umbrella is in tatters, and I had to leave her mine, as I was going away for the whole day." She spoke the words like a person in a trance. "For the whole day? At this hour? Where?" They were on the doorstep, and she fumbled automatically for her key, let herself in, and led the way to the sitting-room. It had not been tidied up since the night before.
"Oh, Susy, darling, what is it?" Junie's arms were about her in a flash, and Susy grasped them in burning fingers. "Junie, listen! I've got to go away at once to leave you all for the whole day. I may not be back till late this evening; late to-night; I can't tell. I promised your mother I'd never leave you; but I've got to I've got to."
It was one of a thousand such as the city yawns at every day the shop girl's story of insufficient wages, further reduced by "fines" that go to swell the store's profits; of time lost through illness; and then of lost positions, lost hope, and the knock of the adventurer upon the green door. But to Rudolf the history sounded as big as the Iliad or the crisis in "Junie's Love Test."
Satisfied, then, that he was on the highroad to recovery, and having made up her mind as to her own course of procedure, Nancy rather enjoyed these few days of comparative freedom. She supplied herself with a huge box of bonbons, "Junie's Love Test" and "The Widowed Bride," books begun long ago, but wrested from her untimely by the ruthless Mrs.
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