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Updated: June 10, 2025
That evening, while Tufik took his shrunken and wrinkled clothing to be pressed by a little tailor in the neighborhood who did Tish's repairing, the three of us went back to the kitchen and tried to put it in order. It was frightful flour and burned grease over everything, every pan dirty, dishes all over the place and a half-burned cigarette in the sugar bin.
Aggie's maid having responded to the bell, Aggie ordered ice cream for Tufik and a chair drawn to the table; but the chair Tufik refused with a little, smiling bow. "It is not right that I sit," he said. "I stand in the presence of my three mothers. But first I forget my gift! For the sadness, Miss Pilk!" He held out the tissue-paper package and Aggie opened it.
But Charlie Sands said it was impossible that the editors and owners of the paper were always putting on their sons and relatives, and that when there was a vacancy the big advertisers got it. Tish insisted she suggested that Tufik could run an Arabian column, like the German one, and bring in a lot of new subscribers. But Charlie Sands stood firm. At noon Tufik came.
He ignored Charlie Sands, but made at once for Tish and dropped on one knee beside her. "Miss Tish!" he begged. "Forgive, Miss Tish! Tufik is wicked. He has the bad heart. He has spoil the going on the canal. No?" "Get up!" said Tish. "Don't be a silly child. Go and take your shoes out of the oven. We are not going to Panama. When you are better, I am going to give you a good scolding."
But when Tufik brought us little thimble-sized glasses filled with a milky stuff and assured us that the women had only gone to prepare the bride, we felt reassured. He said that etiquette demanded that we drink the milky white stuff. Tish was inclined to demur. "Has it any alcohol in it?" she demanded.
"Where to?" asked Tish from the driving-seat, looking straight ahead and pulling on her gloves. From where we sat we could still see the dot of white on the grass that was the centerpiece. "Back to the house," Aggie snapped, "to have some chicken and waffles and Tufik for dinner!" Tish drove home in cold silence.
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