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Besides, it would be a bad influence for Luke to have such a person as Gay about. We must make a man out of Luke." "Don't go upsetting him. He eats his three good meals a day and always acts like a little gentleman. You'll nag at him until he runs away like my brother Amos did." "Better run away from us than run over us," Mary argued; "but there is no need of planning for Trudy's return.
I'm not getting any younger, and it's pretty rough to be in an office with horrid people ordering you round to have to hear all about Beatrice Constantine and her wonderful wedding. I'm as good as she is yet I'll not be asked, and you will be." "Of course I am. I'm her oldest playmate," he said, proudly. Trudy's temper jumped the stockade.
He welcomed the prospect of four passengers with a glad smile and swung Aunt Trudy's bags to a safe place under the seat at a nod from Rosemary. While they climbed in, he departed with the trunk checks and returned in a few minutes to report that the three trunks would be in the front hall of the Willis home within an hour.
"Wait a minute and I'll go," said Sarah, jerking down her tan linen dress from its hook in the closet. "Is Aunt Trudy's room all ready, Winnie?" asked Rosemary, as the three sisters stopped in the kitchen to notify that faithful individual of their departure. "Do we look nice?" It was impossible to look at the three faces without an answering smile.
After a brief period of retirement from the world, during which he chattered with fear when he wrapped Trudy's gay little possessions in bundles and gave them away, he emerged in the satisfactory role of a young widower on the loose who feels that "Perhaps it was all for the best; an idyl of youth, y'know; someone quite out of my sphere," and was welcomed by the old set enthusiastically.
Though she regarded Trudy's gossip as absurd she did not forget it. No woman would. It lay in waiting until the right moment. Her father's illness and Steve's worried look as he came home each night caused Beatrice to cast about for something noble and remarkable to do.
But Trudy was a real person and a constant reminder of what Beatrice herself might have been, and therefore Beatrice never ceased to envy her or to picture how much better she could do were she in Trudy's place. She preferred not having her about. Besides, Trudy was impossible in Italian villas she belonged in a near-mahogany atmosphere with cerise-silk drapes and gaudy vases.
"Hugh!" some one called. "Hugh, it's down Plummers Lane. Going to get the car out? I'll help you." "That's Jack," cried Rosemary, trying to see through the white curtains without being seen. "Oh, dear, men have all the fun!" In spite of Winnie's remonstrances and Aunt Trudy's worry that they would have pneumonia, the three girls tried to stay up till their brother came back.
Beatrice particularly saw to it that he was petted and properly cared for regarding invitations and dainties to eat and drink. In this new rôle, with a well-established business and no shrewd red-haired wife to point out his meannesses and try to make him go fifty-fifty with the profits, Gay felt at peace with all the world. He did not even miss Trudy's work after a little.
The next thing on Trudy's Sunday program was washing out "just a few little things, Mary dear; and have you a bit of soap I could borrow and may I use the electric iron for half a jiffy?" Presently there were hung on the line some dabs of chiffon and lace, and Trudy, taking advantage of her softened cuticle, sat down and did her nails, Mrs.
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