On returning to the Hathaway house Josie found that Mary Louise and her husband, having finally received the telegram, had hastened to inform Polly and Peter of the good news contained therein. Already they were fast friends with the Wallers. Dr. Weston had joined them and came in for his share of thanks from the grateful parents.
The children looked very happy. Peter acknowledged that he was glad he wasn't dead and his father was not an angel after all.
"I'd ruther a' been dead than go back with ol' Dink, though," said Peter snuggling in his mother's arms.
The children changed laps every now and then, as though to make sure that both parents were really alive and well and belonged to them, Polly and Peter.