"We need it badly enough!" He fingered the check absently. "I didn't suppose we should ever have it, though!"
"I told him we needed it," she said casually.
"You begged it of him, I suppose!" A little trace of annoyance ran in the words.
She received it equably. "I didn't do any begging, I guess. I just told him we wanted it."
"So he handed it out!"
"Well—not right then. He said he'd think it over— He gave it to me this afternoon. Put it on my plate—for a kind of surprise." She was looking at something and smiling mistily at it.
He watched her uneasily.
"He's a nice man!" she said, meeting the glance he bent upon her.
"You're tired," he responded abruptly.