“Fudge? Did you ask for fudge, ladies? You shall have it. I finish everything I start,” Sue’s eyes were round with excitement. “Dit’s roommate keeps canned heat all the time and I am going to borrow some.”
“Sue! You mean you’ll go to college hall?” Betsy asked. That meant getting safely through the intervening corridor and stepping in to the lighted halls. The chances of being caught were great.
“I’d walk a mile for—fudge.” Sue concluded.
“I’ll go with you, then,” Betsy said. “Now if we can get to the first floor-bath and luckily catch some one we know well enough, we can hide in a shower while she goes and borrows the canned heat.”
Betsy certainly knew her way around.
“If you all get caught I’ll die,” Chloe whispered after them.
“We won’t,” Betsy assured her. “Into the valley of death strode——” Betsy and Sue were out the door.
“Gee! I’ve been thinking about Daddy and Mother so much since I got hurt,” Mimi confided as she and Chloe huddled on the bathroom floor in the dim light. “You’d love my Mother and Daddy. They’re keen! My Daddy is the best doctor in the world and Mother is a darling. When they visited me at camp this summer all the girls raved over them. Some of them who have cranky old ‘stick-in-the-mud’ parents, envied me.”
“I’d envy you any kind of mother and daddy—even old fogies.” Chloe’s whisper was pathetically small and lonely.
Mimi didn’t know what to say. She wanted to ask, “Where are your Mother and Daddy?” but somehow she couldn’t. She reached over and squeezed Chloe’s hand and continued staring ahead. Minutes passed and Mimi could not find her tongue.