Charley was waiting for her at the end of the hall. "Don't say I didn't warn you. Here—I'll give you a chocolatey kiss. Are you lunching downtown? There's a darling new tea-room just opened in the Great Lakes Building——"
"I've promised to be home by noon, at the latest."
"What for?"
"To take mother marketing and over to the West Side——"
"Oh, for Heaven's sake!"
"You have your job, Charley. This is mine."
"Oh, is it? Do you like it?"
"N-n-no."
"Then it isn't."
Lottie flung a final word at the door. "Even a free untrammelled spirit like you will acknowledge that such a thing as duty does exist, I suppose?"