"Oh, I'll tell you tonight, little girl."
"If it's good news we'd all like to hear it," Fanny insisted.
Schroder regarded his friend askance. He suspected something. He had left Basine yesterday night and there had been no hint of anything happening. And today being Sunday.... He smiled to himself. "Covering up," he thought. "Husbands are comical." He decided not to press Basine. He had evidently been up to something ... "playing a matinee." He noticed that his friend was trying to change the subject.
"Is it something personal?" Henrietta asked with a frown. "You frighten me, George, when you don't tell me things."
Basine, sitting down, beamed with enthusiasm on the group, on his home.
"Where are the children?" he asked.
"Over at the Harveys," Henrietta answered.
"Well," said her husband with an explosive intonation, "I've made up my mind to go after the circuit court. There's a chance next April."
"Going to run for Judge, eh?" Schroder asked with interest.
"Yes sir," Basine laughed. "I just had a session with some of the boys this afternoon and we discussed it."