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Her friend's answer raised Jimmy considerably in Zoie's esteem. Apparently he had not breathed a word about the luncheon. "Why, Jimmy told me," continued Aggie, "that you and Alfred had had another tiff, and that Alfred had gone for good." "For GOOD!" echoed Zoie and her eyes were wide with terror. "Did Alfred tell Jimmy that?" Aggie nodded.
Zoie's small face peeped cautiously around the edge of the doorway. "Well, perhaps I did," she admitted; then she slipped gingerly into the room, "my nerves are jumping like fizzy water."
Apparently it was; and as Zoie watched Aggie's face, with its increasing distress she surmised that Jimmy's message was anything but "dear." "Good heavens!" cried Aggie over the telephone, "that's awful!" "Isn't Alfred coming?" was the first question that burst from Zoie's lips. Aggie motioned to Zoie to be quiet. "TO-NIGHT!" she exclaimed.
Alarmed by Zoie's increasing excitement, and thinking she was troubled merely by a sick woman's fancy that someone might see through the window, Alfred placed the babe quickly in its cradle and crossed to the young wife's bed. "It was up, dear," he said. "You had Aggie put it down." "Then I want it up," declared the seemingly perverse Zoie. "But it was up," argued Alfred.
Zoie waved him from the room. "I wish you'd get out of here," she cried; "you make me so nervous that I can't think at all." "Of course, dear," murmured Alfred, "if you wish it." And with a hurt and perplexed expression on his face he backed quickly from the room. When Zoie's letter asking for the O'Flarety twin had reached that young lady's astonished mother, Mrs.
Several times he opened his lips to ask a question, but it was apparent that the person at the other end of the line had a great deal to say and very little time to say it, and it was only after repeated attempts that he managed to get in a word or so edgewise. "What's happened?" he asked. "Say nothing to anybody," was Zoie's noncommittal answer, "not even to Aggie.
Mistaking Zoie's feeling for one of embarrassment at being over-praised, Alfred bore the infant to her bedside. "See, dear," he persisted, "see for yourself, look at his forehead." "I'd rather look at you," pouted Zoie, peeping from beneath the coverlet, "if you would only put that thing down for a minute." "Thing?" exclaimed Alfred, as though doubting his own ears.
Aggie hastened toward the window. Attributing Zoie's uneasiness to a caprice of modesty, Alfred turned from the cradle to reassure her. "No one can see in way up here," he said. To Zoie's distress, the lowering of the shade was answered by a yet shriller whistle from the street below.
You'll have all day to get used to it before Alfred gets here." "ALL DAY," echoed Zoie, and the corners of her mouth began to droop. "Won't Alfred be here before TO-MORROW NIGHT?" Aggie was becoming exasperated by Zoie's endless questions.
"There now, dear, do go, you're all buttoned up," and with that she urged him toward the door. "Just a minute," protested Jimmy, as he paused on the threshold. "Let me get this right, if the shade is up, I stay down." "Not at all," corrected Aggie and Zoie in a breath. "If the shade is up, you come up." Jimmy cast another martyred look in Zoie's direction.
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