wailed disconsolately through the house.
"Good heavens," Carolyn June called, "do you blow bubbles this early in the morning?"
"Don't you like it?" Skinny asked soberly. "I thought that was a pretty good tune."
"I'm crazy about it!" Carolyn June answered sarcastically. "There and then, but not here and now—"
"Where and when?" Skinny queried innocently.
"In the valley of the moon at the end of a perfect day!" she laughed back. "—Forgive me, I couldn't help it!"
"What does she mean?" Skinny asked Parker in a whisper. "Is she making fun of me?"
"No, you blamed fool," Parker replied, "she feels good and is just joking—"
Skinny brightened up immediately.
"That's a good one," he called to Carolyn June with a snicker; "I never thought of it before!"