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"Out of the tail of my eye I see a fat lady start to faint, and when she's right in the middle of the faint, change her mind about it and do a back flip into a plumber's shop, the purtiest you ever seen. I see a policeman dodge out from behind a lamp-post as Emily approaches, and reach for his gun.
A lonely, busy autumn fellowed, and a winter of hard and thankless work. "I feel like a plumber's wife," smiled Margaret to Mrs. Kippam, when in November John wrote her of a "raise." But when he came down for two days at Christmastime, she noticed that he was brown, cheerful, and amazingly strong.
"Oh, that will wash out," says Babe careless. "You're fond of youngsters, I suppose?" "Well, in a way I am," says she. "I'm used to 'em anyway, being one of six myself. That's why I'm out teaching makes one less for Dad to have to rustle for. He keeps the little plumber's shop down opposite the station. You've seen the sign T. Snell." "I've no doubt I have," says Babe.
Other sounds from above indicated the plumber's progress from floor to floor. "Do you realize," she said impulsively, "how very nice you have been to me? What a perfectly horrid position I might have been in, with poor Clarence on the back fence! And suppose I had dared follow him alone to the cellar? I I might have been there yet up to my neck in coal?"
"Oh, you're one of the plumber's men?" asked Bob, thinking perhaps his aunt might have asked to have some men sent out to work on the new cellar under the washroom where the hot-water heater was to go. "No, I no-a da plumb. I-a da mase and-a da carpendero." "Oh, you want a job?" asked Bob, catching his meaning. "Yes-a, da job, but no-a work-a da field.
Therefore, if there comes a winter when snow, ice, high winds, and low temperatures cause you to wonder if living in the country the year around is quite sound and you decide that a few weeks in a nice city apartment would be a good idea, close your house, if it seems more expedient than leaving a caretaker behind, but don't try to save the plumber's fee.
Under any other circumstances, the plumber's compliments on her taste and his lugubrious assumption of character of the Destroying Angel would have sorely tried, if not completely upset, Ella's gravity; as it was, she was too wretched to have more than a passing and quite unappreciative sense of his absurdity.
So that's how it happens I'm waitin' in the plumber's parlor for Babe Cutler's runaway bride. And say, when she shows up in that zippy sport suit, just in from a long tramp across country, she looks some classy. First off she's inclined to be nervous and jumpy and don't want to talk about Babe at all. "Oh, he's all right," says she. "I have nothing against him. He he meant well."
Marion, who was not without a sense of humour, smiled rather wanly. Encouraged, Elizabeth continued: 'Wot's the use o' spoilin' your pretty eyes cryin' for the moon by which I mean Mr. 'Arbinger when 'e isn't your Fate? Why, bless you, I was once goin' to marry a plumber's mate, and jest a week afore the weddin 'e went orf with some one else an' owin' me arf-a-crown, too.
A footpath in the bottom of it encouraged him to follow it, and a couple of hundred yards farther along he emerged upon the level end of a street given over to secondhand stores, junk shops and a plumber's establishment. From there to the main street was easy enough. As he had expected, only a few citizens were abroad and Starr strolled over to the cross street he wanted to inspect.
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