"For why yet he should wait till he's got better prospects, so his mother-in-law can hang on? I guess not!"
"Mommy darling. If you only truly feel like that about it. Why, you can keep putting off the lease, ma, if it's only for six months, and then we—we'll all be to—"
"Of course, baby. Mama knows. Of course!"
"He—I just can't begin to tell you, ma, the kind of a fellow Leo is till you know him better, mommy dear."
"Always Vetsburg says he's a wide-awake one!"
"That's just what he is, ma. He's just a prince if—if there ever was one. One little prince of a fellow." She fell to crying softly, easy tears that flowed freely.
"I—I can tell you, baby, I'm happy as you."
"Mommy dear, kiss me."
They talked, huddled arm in arm, until dawn flowed in at the window and dirty roofs began to show against a clean sky. Footsteps began to clatter through the asphalt court and there came the rattle of milk-cans.
"I wonder if Annie left out the note for Mrs. Suss's extra milk!"