Charlie looked at them in a ruminating manner and murmured: “Too happy-looking for anything to be really the matter. Wish they’d come on and go in to dinner.”
“You are perfectly ridiculous, all of you. Aren’t they, Sergeant Murphy?” and Jane received an understanding wink from that son of the Emerald Isle.
“It was this way,” began Ellen and told of how the big policeman had taken them from shop to shop, and piloted them around all afternoon.
“So when we finished shopping,” broke in Jane, “I suggested that all of us go to a movie.”
“And a fine picture it was, Mum,” said Sergeant Murphy to Aunt Min, “with that Fairbanks lad abusting things wide open with every foot of reel.”
Jane turned to Sergeant Murphy and shaking his hand said: “Ellen and I want to thank you for your kindness and also for giving us such a lovely afternoon.”
“’Tis nothin’,” said Sergeant Murphy. “’Twas myself that had all the fun.”