"
"Have them, by all means. Are you settled enough?"
"Oh, yes. And I shan't have anything much to do. Mrs. Chase is a host in
herself, and Nurse Winnie takes full charge of my child,--with Susie's
help."
"Do you own that infant exclusively, ma'am? I notice you always say _my_
child!"
"As I've told you, you don't count. Why, you won't really count until
the day when some nice young man comes to ask you for the hand of
Mademoiselle Fleurette."
"Heaven forbid the day! I'll send him packing!"
"Indeed you won't! I want my daughter to marry and live happy ever
after,--as _I'm_ doing."
"Are you, Patty? Are you happy?"
As Billee asked this question a dozen times a day for the sheer joy of
watching Patty's lovely face smile an affirmative, she didn't think it
necessary to enlarge on the subject.
"I do be," she said, succinctly, and Farnsworth believed her.
"Now, I propose," she went on, "that we have a week-end house-party.
That's the nicest way to show off the place--"
"Patty! Are you growing proud and ostentatious?"
"I'm proud--very much so, of my home and my family,--but nobody ever
called me ostentatious! What _do_ you mean?"
"Nothing. I spoke thoughtlessly. But you are puffed up with pride and
vanity,--_I_ think."
"Who wouldn't be--with all this?"
Patty swept an arm off toward the acres of their domain, and smiled
happily in her delight of ownership.
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