“Perhaps I shall,” replied Anna.
“We shall go for a long drive. There will be plenty of time, it is so early. How lovely it would be if we had our automobile, wouldn't it, Anna? Then we could go any distance. Wouldn't it be lovely?”
“Very,” replied Anna.
Then Eddy burst into the room. “Say, Amy,” he cried, “there's a great circus out in the stable. Papa and Martin are having a scrap.”
“Eddy, dear,” cried Mrs. Carroll, “you must not say scrap.”
“A shindy, then. What difference does it make? Martin he won't harness, because he hasn't been paid. He just sits on a chair in the door and whittles a stick, and don't say anything, and he won't harness.”
“We have simply got to have an automobile,” said Mrs. Carroll.
“How do you know it is because he hasn't been paid, Eddy?” asked Anna.
“Because he said so; before he wouldn't say anything, and began whittling. Papa stands there talking to him, but it don't make any difference.”
“With an automobile it wouldn't make any difference,” said Mrs. Carroll. “An automobile doesn't have to be harnessed. I don't see why Arthur doesn't get one.”