Mr. Jerry heard her and sharpened his ears for the answer.
"You'd get tired riding forever with anyone, Mary Rose. There is only one thing that people never get tired of."
"What's that?" Mary Rose hungered to hear.
"Work." Mr. Jerry sniffed. They could hear him in the tonneau.
Mary Rose shook her head. "Gladys' mother did. She said she had never had enough fun to know whether she would get tired of it or not, but she'd had plenty of chance to know there were some things she never wanted to see again, and one of them was work and the other was the red and black plaid silk dress that the dressmaker spoiled."
Mr. Jerry chuckled on the front seat and after a second Miss Thorley laughed, too.
"Mary Rose," she said very distinctly, "I'll have to give you a broader vision. You have entirely too narrow an outlook."
"What's that, Miss Thorley? What's a broader vision?" Mary Rose couldn't imagine.
It was Mr. Jerry who answered. "In this particular case, Mary Rose, it's seeing far too much for one and not enough for two."
As they rolled up to the Washington Miss Carter came down the street with Bob Strahan whom she had met on the car. It was amazing, now that they were on speaking terms, how often they met. Bob Strahan stopped to open the door of the automobile and help Miss Thorley out, and Mary Rose proudly introduced Mr. Jerry who boarded her cat. They all laughed and talked together for a few minutes and then Mary Rose hopped from the back seat to the front.