“Who said we had to?” Sally demanded sharply.
“Not all of us, just me, perhaps.”
Barbara told her of the impromptu interview.
“Well, if you have to go up, I’ll go with you,” Sally declared.
“You wouldn’t!”
“Why not? If I’m to work with radio, I may be sent up as a radioman for a bomber. Then I’ll want to know just how to step out into thin air.”
“All right!” Barbara exclaimed. “It’s a date. If I step through a hole in the sky, you’re to come stepping right after me.”
“It’s a date,” Sally agreed.
That evening Barbara went to a movie with one of the girls who had come in on the same train. Left to herself, Sally sat for a long time in her dark room just thinking.
Those were long, long thoughts. She had been there long enough to realize as never before what a change was to come into her life.