"Yes! Right away! I'll go after her now."
"I'll go with you," suggested Sue. "May I?"
She tried to catch Farvel's eye, to warn him.
"But, Susan," objected Mrs. Milo; "I can't spare you."
"Oh, I can go alone," protested Clare. "I don't need anybody."
Behind her back, Balcome held up a lead-pencil at Sue.
She understood, "We'll send for the baby. Now, what's the address?" She proffered Clare the pencil and an envelope from one of Balcome's sagging pockets. Then to him, as Clare wrote, "Would you mind going back to the Rectory and sending me Dora?"
"Good idea!" He pulled on the big hat.
"Dora?" cried Mrs. Milo. "That child?"
"Child!" laughed Sue. "Why, I'd send her to Japan. You don't think she'd ever succumb to the snares and pitfalls of this wicked world! She'll set the whole train to memorizing Lamentations!"