[ "'It's a squirrel! A really truly squirrel in this big city!'" ]
[ "Mary Rose was perched on a chair across from him and was telling him
of Mifflin" ]
[ "There on the wide window seat was the self-supporting cat" ]
[ "'Why didn't you come home before, Mary Rose?' Miss Thorley asked" ]
MARY ROSE OF MIFFLIN
CHAPTER I
"It's there in every lease, plain as print," Larry Donovan insisted. "No childern, no dogs an' no cats. It's in every lease."
"I don't care if it is!" Kate Donovan's face was as red as a poppy and she spoke with a determination that exactly matched her husband's. "You needn't think I'm goin' to turn away my own sister's only child? Who should take care of her if I don't? Tell me that, Larry Donovan, an' be ashamed of yourself for askin' me to send her away!"
"Sure, an' I'd like the little thing here as much as you, Kate, dear," Larry said soothingly, and in her heart Mrs. Donovan knew that he meant it. "But it isn't every day that a man picks up a job like this, janitor of a swell apartmen' buildin', an' if we take in a kid when the lease says plain as can be, no childern, no dogs an' no cats, I'll lose the job an' then how'll I put a roof over your heads an' bread in your stomachs? That's why I'm again' it."