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Littell and the other two girls joyously arranged on the back seat, with Carter having hard work to keep from smiling at their jokes and quips. "How elegant we look," jeered Mr. Littell, whose injured foot was still stiff but who began to talk about returning to his office. "I don't suppose you could be persuaded to go to see 'The Rose-Pink Curtains' with us, and have a sundae afterward?"
It was twenty minutes to three when Marjorie finished a remarkable concoction of nuts, chocolate syrup and ice cream, a kind of glorified nut sundae, rejoicing in the name of "Sargent Nectar," and left the smart little confectioner's shop.
I expects I starts a grin; but one glimpse of Mr. Robert's face and it fades out. He wa'n't happy a bit. For a minute he stands there lookin' sort of dazed, as if he'd been hit with a lead pipe, and with his neck and ears tinted up like a raspb'rry sundae. "Very well," says he, and does a slow exit, leavin' me gawpin' after him sympathetic. Not for long, though.
I told her of my desolate childhood, of the quiet village in which my uneventful girlhood was passed, where the most exciting thing that ever happened was a funeral about once in four years. When I finished she showed the first signs of friendliness as she exclaimed, "Heavens! Didn't you have any 'movies, any chums, any boys to treat you now and then to a sundae?"
A moment later they were in the ice cream parlor that was like a cool green cave after the heat and the light outside. Mary Rose chose a chocolate sundae and she giggled as she looked at the rich brown sauce. "When I was little, nothing but a baby," she said, "I thought that it was the yellow in the eggs I ate that made my hair yellow.
"They all sound so good! Walnut banana sundae; strawberry glory; peach Melba; chocolate parfait, with whipped cream and cracked walnuts; elegantine fizz Help me out, please." She, too, plunged into the labyrinth of toothsome titles. Finally she emerged smiling. "Have you ever tasted a chocolate fudge-sundae?" "No-o, I'm afraid not."
"If what, Mister Sheridan?" " if, oh well, just charge it." Billy Simmons paused in the act of reaching for a sundae glass. The smile left his face. Pudge, though he did not once look up from that absorbing little operation with the fat forefinger, felt this pause and knew that Billy's grin had gone; and his own mouth drooped and drooped. It was a tense moment.
"It does sound reasonable." "Not that I swear myself not out loud, anyway, but sometimes, when I'm right peeved at Gerald or Naomi or somebody, I get in my room and say swear-words right out loud. And I feel ever so much better for it!" The conversation languished while she again attacked the sundae. Carroll spoke: "Have you seen your friend, Miss Gresham, lately?" "Hazel?
He rolled down the stairs to the street, stood a moment in front of Humphrey's, drew a sudden breath that was almost a gasp, waddled into the store, advanced directly on the soda fountain, and with a blazing red face and angrily triumphant eyes confronted Billy Simmons. "I'll take a chocolate marshmallow nut sundae," he said. "And you needn't be stingy with the marshmallow, either!"
"Essay on the Appreciation of Nature, by Professor Collins," she smiled. "To be continued in our next," he amended. "Won't you come in and have a sundae? You look as if you didn't know it, but the rest of us have discovered it's a right warm morning." Looking across the little table at him over her sundae, she questioned him with innocent impudence. "I saw you and dad deep in plans Tuesday.
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