"That you, Phonzie?"
"Yes, hon, it's me."
'"Sh-h-h-h!"
He tiptoed down the aisle of hallway and into the soft-lighted front room. From a mound of pillows and sleepy from their luxury Millie Moores rose to his approach, her forefinger placed across her lips and a pale mist of chiffon falling backward from her arms.
What a masseuse is Love! The lines had faded from Millie's face and in their place the grace of tenderness and a roundness where the chin had softened. Years had folded back like petals, revealing the heart and the unwithered bosom of her.
He kissed her, pressing the finger of warning closer against her lips, and she patted a place for him on the Mexican afghan beside her.
"Phonzie!"
"How you feelin', hon?"
"Strong! If it ain't raining to-morrow, I'm going to take him out if I have to carry him in my arms. Say, wouldn't I like to feel myself rolling him in one of them white-enamel, glass-top things like Van Ness has for her last one. Ida May tried three places to get one for us."
"They're made special."