I slipped the notes into my pocket. “Have you no purse, dear?”
“Upstairs,” I said.
“Well, be careful of the money. Don’t lose it.”
“I’ll be very careful; thank you so much.”
I went out into the hall. Charley was there.
“I say, Dumps!”
“What is it, Charley?”
“Von Marlo and I have been talking about the new mamma.”
“You are not to call her that.”
“But I say she is, you know; and Von and I, we say—”