“Freeze ice! What a paradoxical process! But what I want you to suggest is something for Miss Rhody––something very nice.”
“What she wants most is something you can’t get her,” thought David, looking up with a tantalizing little smile. Then her second wish occurred to him.
“I know something she wants dreadfully; something she never expects to have.”
“That is just what I want to get for her.” 53
“It’ll cost a lot.”
Joe disposed of that consideration by a munificent wave of the hand.
“What is it?”
“A black silk dress,” informed the boy delightedly.
“She shall have it. How many yards does it take, I wonder?”
“We can ask Janey’s teacher when we get to school,” suggested the boy.