Mrs. Fountain: "How sweet you are! And how funny! And good!" She accentuates each sentiment with a kiss. "And don't you suppose I felt sorry for you, making you go round with me the whole afternoon, and then leaving you to take the brunt of arranging the presents? Now I'll tell you: next year, I will do my Christmas shopping in July. It's the only way."
Fountain: "No, there's a better way. As you were saying, they don't have the Christmas things out. The only way is to do our Christmas shopping the day after Christmas; everything will be round still, and dog-cheap. Come, we'll begin day after to-morrow."
Mrs. Fountain: "We will, we will!"
Fountain: "Do you think we will?"
Mrs. Fountain: "Well, we'll say we will." They laugh together, and then he kisses her.
Fountain: "Even if it goes on in the same old way, as long as we have each other—"
Mrs. Fountain: "And the children."
Fountain: "I forgot the children!"
Mrs. Fountain: "Oh, how delightful you are!"
THE END