“Two and a half days,” Betsy corrected. The thoughts of going home made them all tingle with joy.
“Here’s an even better idea,” said Mimi harking back to the business in hand. “Of course, we’ll each have to buy a tooth brush, a comb, and a wash cloth, but outside of those, let’s each put in a dime and buy one tube of tooth paste, one cake of soap, one nail file and one box of powder.”
“What! The founder of a beauty cult leave powder till last?” Sue teased. “But that is a good idea. Let’s.”
“I don’t think we should buy any clothes until we know what was salvaged.”
“Don’t worry. I can’t without permission from Aunt Marcia.”
After a grand time in the ten cent store, pushing and scrouging and getting lost from each other, the girls separated. Betsy and Mimi went to the beauty salon. Sue and Chloe beat them back to school by an hour. Sue was still ready to tease about their hair when she came out to meet them.
Mimi never could stand to see girls who had just had their hair set going about with it pasted flat to their heads. She had laughed at many a one. Here she was looking that way herself. She felt as if her ears were sticking out a mile.
“More things have happened!” Sue called from the drive.
“They must have,” Mimi said to Betsy. “Sue has Chloe in a run.”
She was dragging Chloe along at a trot.