“Daddy dont I always come when I say I will?”
“Of course you do deary.”
“How are you getting on? How’s everything at the office?”
“Mr. Elbert’s on his vacation.... I guess I’ll go when he comes back. I wish you’d come down to Spring Lake with me for a few days. It’d do you good.”
“But daddy I cant.” ... She pulled off her hat and
dropped it on the davenport. “Look I brought you some roses, daddy.”
“Think of it; they’re red roses like your mother used to like. That was very thoughtful of you I must say.... But I dont like going all alone on my vacation.”
“Oh you’ll meet lots of cronies daddy, sure you will.”
“Why couldnt you come just for a week?”
“In the first place I’ve got to look for a job ... show’s going on the road and I’m not going just at present. Harry Goldweiser’s awfully sore about it.” Thatcher sat down in the bay window again and began piling up the Sunday papers on a chair. “Why daddy what on earth are you doing with that copy of Town Topics?”