Married people -- Fiction; New York (State) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
The Innocents, the conquering babes in the wood, put out all the lights
except the bedside lamp on the table between their twin beds. These
aristocratic beds were close enough together so that they could lie with
their out-stretched hands clasped. They had left the door into the
living-room open, and the low lights from the coals in the fireplace
made a path across the polished floor and the new rugs--a vista of
spaciousness and content.
"It's our first real home," murmured Father. "My old honey, we've come
home! We'll have the Tubbses here from the Cape, come Christmas-time.
Yes, and Crook McKusick, if we ever hear from him! And we'll play
cribbage. I bet I can beat Joe Tubbs four games out of five. Say, look
here, young woman, don't you go to sleep yet. I'm a hard-working man,
and it's Doc Schergan's orders that I got to be played with and hold
your hand like this for fourteen minutes every night, before I go to
sleep.... My old honey!"
"How you do run on!" said Mother, drowsily.
THE END
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