“Of course it’s all right. I’ll go with you,” Peter surprised Judy by saying. “I’m supposed to walk around and get used to this cast. It makes me feel a little top-heavy right now. You’ll have to help me on with my robe.”
Judy smiled. It was so good to see Peter up and walking. She escorted him to the waiting room where little Judy had to be stopped from pouncing on him. The baby stared at the cast and then said sorrowfully, “Peter all broke.”
“How does she mean that?” asked Dale. “Good to see you so chipper,” he added, shaking the hand that Peter extended. “I’ve always heard that you can’t keep a good man down.”
Mr. Blake was introduced and invited to accompany Dale and Irene to the room in the old building where the red-haired woman was. They left quietly just as Peter was saying to little Judy, “I guess I must look something like a broken dolly to you.”
“Baby,” little Judy corrected him. Irene had brought along one of little Judy’s “babies” to keep her amused.
“A dolly can also be a truck used for television cameras,” Judy remarked. “You learn a whole new language. A chair becomes a prop, and a log is no longer something to throw in the fireplace. It’s a complete record of everything that happens on a station from sign-on in the morning to sign-off at midnight. I might remember what I forgot to put on that list if I looked at the station log.”
“Do that,” advised Peter. “There may have been something to make you dream—”
“On television?” Judy laughed. “I don’t know what it was unless that witch gave me nightmares.”
“Funny witch!” spoke up little Judy.
“You see,” Judy pointed out, “she was a funny witch. She wasn’t frightening even to a baby. The whole play was delightful. Did you see the reviews of it? Nobody seemed to recognize Francine Dow. Little Judy is holding the doll—excuse me, I mean the baby, that played the part of Sleeping Beauty during the first part of the show. They also used a film strip of a real baby.”