“So?”
“Do you expect to make that éclair go until then?”
“I hadn’t thought much about it,” he answered uneasily.
“You don’t look as if you would,” she said. “You are new to this, aren’t you?”
“Yes.”
He did not resent her questioning; and it did not occur to him to give her an evasive reply.
“Just out of college?”
“Last fall.”
“What you been doing since then?”
“Why, nothing,” he admitted. “You see, my father died only last month, and––”