“Right-o,” he answered as he sprang from bed. “But there’s no need of your getting up.”
“I’d be ashamed of myself if I didn’t.”
She had breakfast with him that first work morning as she planned to do every morning of her life after that.
“Now, Don,” she warned as he was ready to leave, “mind you don’t say anything about a raise in salary for a little while yet. I know Farnsworth, and he’ll give it to you the moment he feels you’ve made good. Besides, we can afford to wait and––I don’t know as I want you to have any more money than you have now. It’s ridiculous for you to have that two thousand from your father.”
“I guess we can use it, little woman,” he laughed.
“We can save it,” she insisted. “And, of course, it’s pretty nice to have an emergency fund, only it sort of takes half the fun out of life to be so safe.”
“It takes half the worry with it, too,” he reminded her.
She thought a moment. Then she kissed him.
“Maybe it’s good for people to worry a bit,” she answered.