know that. You realized I didn't have a nickel when we were married and had to borrow some money from my uncle to get started here. I've paid it all back now and have a little to spare. I'm getting along mighty well right now and I've a deal on with my uncle that, if it goes through, will put us on Easy Strect for the rest of our lives. Then you can go ahead and buy out Giddings' if you like. But just at present we'll have to go very carefully."
Carmelita, vanity battling with what she had to admit was the good sense of Dudley's explanation, pouted uncertainly. "I wouldn't have gone out and bought these things without consulting you," she conceded, "if Lucy hadn't called up this afternoon and invited us out to Long Island for the week-end. We haven't been anywhere all summer and we're bound to have a wonderful time there. There's no hostess quite like Lucy. And all my clothes are such a fright. I simply had to have new ones."
Dudley braced himself for another tempest. "That was very decent of Lucy, I'm sure. And you go right ahead and enjoy yourself. But I'm afraid your Uncle Dudley won't be able to toddle along with you. I have to stay at the office until Saturday night and Sunday I have to run out to my uncle's at Greenwich. I rather thought you'd be going along with
