"Well, now, I guess you're satisfied," Grandfather said, coming in on this tableau. "I guess you've got about all you need to make you happy, ain't you?"

Elizabeth threw a forlorn glance at her mother.

"I need other things to make me happy," she said, "but I'm perfectly satisfied with this darling person, all the same."


CHAPTER XVII

Elizabeth Is Scared

"Well, Baby."

"Well, Daddy."

Elizabeth and her father were the first ones down to breakfast on the morning after his arrival with Buddy—the first of the visiting family, at least. Grandfather had been outside and at work since dawn, and Grandmother and Judidy had been in the kitchen almost as long, employed in magnificent preparations for feasting the returned sons of the house.