"She's getting ready to go abroad."
"She thinks she's getting ready to go abroad. I just want about ten days before the day she thinks she's going."
"She's getting her passport."
"I want her to," said Buddy, affectionately, "I want her to have everything go the way she thinks she wants it to go, and then at the end I want to step right in and smash it."
"Just like that?" said Elizabeth.
"Just like that," said Buddy, happily.
"I don't believe I'm going to be able to bear this," said Peggy. "I thought it was going to be all right to say good-bye. Everybody has to at this time of the year, but—but that doesn't make it any easier. I don't want to part with you at all. I couldn't sleep last night, thinking of it."
"Neither could I," said Elizabeth.
"It's a whole year till next summer."