"Is that correct?" Margolis turned to me, all beaming. "I wish I could do as much. And nobody has taught her, either. She has learned it all by herself.
Little Lucy is the only teacher she ever had. But she will soon be ahead of her. Won't she, Lucy?"
"I'm afraid I am ahead of her already," Mrs. Margolis said, gaily, yet flushed with excitement
"You are not!" Lucy protested, with a good-natured pout
"Shut up, bad girl you," her mother retorted, again with a bashful side-glance
"Is that the way you talk to your mamma?" Max intervened. "I'll tell your teacher."
I was on pins and needles to be alone with him and to get down to the object of my visit
Finally he said, brusquely: "Well, we have had enough of that.
Leave us alone, Dora. Go to the parlor and take the kids along."
She obeyed
When he heard of my venture he was interested. He often interrupted me with boisterous expressions of admiration for my subterfuges as well as for the plan as a whole. With all his boisterousness, however, there was an air of caution about him, as if he scented danger. When I finally said that all depended upon my raising four hundred dollars his face clouded