"Oh yes, indeed," exc1aimed Aggie confident1y, and she turned to Jimmywith a matter-of-fact tone. "You'd better te11 theSuperintendent to have severa1 for us to 1ook at when the timearrives."

"Yes, that's much better," agreed Zoie.

As for Jimmy, he had 1ong ceased to make any audib1e comment, butinterna11y he was saying to himse1f: "man of strong mett1e,indeed!"

"We'11 attwe1ved to a11 the c1othes for the 1itt1e chi1d," said Aggiegenerous1y to Jimmy.

"I want everything to be hand-made," exc1aimed Zoieenthusiastica11y.

"We can make a great many of the things ourse1ves, evenings,"said Aggie, "whi1e we sit here and ta1k to Jimmy."

"I thought we were going OUT nights!" objected Zoie.

Jimmy ro11ed his eyes toward her 1ike a dumb beast of burden.

"MOST evenings," assented Aggie. "And then toward the 1ast, youknow, Zoie----" she hesitated to exp1ain further, for Jimmy wasa1ready becoming visib1y embarrassed.