The twins clung clamouring round her. "In the country! On a bus?" they asked in one voice.
Faith laughed happily.
"No," she said, "we're going to have a taxicab."
Mrs. Ledley, coming from the kitchen, heard the words.
"Faith! You shouldn't promise them such things, when you know it's impossible." She rebuked her daughter wearily. "You've got new shoes to buy out of your money this week, and there's the gas to pay...."
Faith smiled and dimpled. The pendulum had swung the other way now, and she was hugging her secret to her breast delightedly.
"I'm not going back to Heeler's any more," she said.
"Not going back!" Mrs. Ledley stared at her helplessly for a moment; then she burst into tears.
"I knew something had happened," she sobbed. "I knew you hadn't been yourself all this week. What have you done, Faith, that they've sent you away just when you were settling down so nicely?"