"Why not," says I, "with a twenty-room house, and grounds half as big as Central Park?"
"I know," says Vee. "But a little place like Mr. Shinn's would be large enough for us."
"I expect it would," says I. "You don't really think you'd like to live out there, do you, though?"
"Wouldn't I!" says Vee, her eyes sparklin'. "I'd love it."
"What would you do all day alone?" I suggests.
"I'd raise ducks and chickens and flowers," says Vee. "And Leon could have a garden. Just think!"
Yep—I thought. I must have kept awake hours that night, tryin' not to. And the more I mulled it over—— Well, in the mornin' I had a talk with Mr. Robert, after which I got busy with the long-distance 'phone. I didn't say anything much at lunch about what I'd done, but around three o'clock I calls up the apartment.
"I'm luggin' home someone to dinner," says I. "Guess who?"
Vee couldn't.